A conversation with Seattle
With 98,328 ballots counted (and 96,445 on hand to be counted, plus whatever continue to trickle in through the mail), Ed Murray and Mike McGinn have established clear leads over the rest of the field. Continue reading McGinn and Murray to Battle for November’s Mayoral Title
Mayoral candidate Peter Steinbrueck appeared Monday night, without fanfare, on the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center, at the Sky View Observatory, where he was introducing himself to guests with the casual remark that “I’m running for mayor.” Continue reading In Race with McGinn & Murray, Citizen Steinbrueck Starts Throwing Elbows
But, just over a year out, McGinn has just one challenger: Charlie Staadecker, a former hospitality executive who sounds like a political rookie himself. And events seem to be conspiring in McGinn’s favor. Continue reading Op-Ed: Could the Tunnel Elect Mayor Mike McGinn Twice?
If you visited Bremerton on July 23, 2011, you might have just been passing through, driving off the ferry and exiting through the tunnel. The tunnel’s goal was to make Bremerton more pedestrian friendly, and in fact, above your head, for three blocks along a closed-to-traffic Pacific Avenue, about 4,000 people were standing and socializing right there in the road. They were attending the Washington Beer Commission’s first summertime brew festival, the cunningly named Summer Brewfest. Continue reading Bremerton (Almost) Back in the High Life Again
“Only fair” sounds like a gentleman’s C, to me, and not to be unexpected from someone who is a) new to working within city government, b) taking up controversial positions, c) an outstandingly impolitic speaker, and d) in the unlucky position of cutting spending everywhere. (Just for the record, I’d give McGinn a C myself; though I sympathize with his positions on many issues, his ability to work the Seattle process out of stalemate is very much in doubt. So far, as a coalition-builder he’s failed, and he too often takes his eye off the daily government ball to fasten onto hot-topic issues.) Continue reading Why Do We Hate the Mayor So Much?
Mayor McGinn didn’t get much runway from the Seattle Times. Seattle Timeseditorial columnist Joni Balter has a piece running … Continue reading Op-Ed: The Politics of Impatience (and Knowing Whereof You Speak)
At 2 p.m. today, despite an afternoon lashed by rain, the City Council chambers at City Hall were standing room … Continue reading Mike McGinn Inaugurated as Mayor of Seattle (Photo Gallery)