1. When Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn recently met with Seattle state Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney (D-46) to discuss the city's legislative agenda for Olympia, Kenney reportedly changed the topic. She wanted to know why McGinn hadn't appointed any Hispanics to head any city departments.

(Erica has similar concerns about the lack of women on the McGinn squad.)

2. Josh (center, below) will be reviewing the year in politics on KING-5's "Up Front" this weekend.



Photo from Capitol Hill Seattle.

"Up Front" airs Sunday at 9 am on KING, 11 am on KONG-16, and 8:15 pm on Northwest Cable News.

Josh will also be reviewing the year's news tonight on the Seattle Channel's "City Inside/Out" with C.R. Douglas, which airs  at 7 pm on Channel 21.

3. As we reported back in early September, there's a debate raging over whether the "First Hill streetcar" (so called because Sound Transit promised to put it on First Hill after the agency eliminated the neighborhood's light rail station) should instead run along or near 12th Avenue, on Capitol Hill. (Erica lays out the case for keeping it on First Hill here.)

Now, Seattle Likes Bikes has yet another argument against the 12th Ave. alignment: It includes a set of tracks along the right side of Boren Ave. (a steep hill) that would merge at a slight angle onto 12th. That setup, SLB argues, is "a bicycle killer"—like the South Lake Union trolley and the railroad tracks near the Burke-Gilman trail, where cyclists' wheels are frequently caught in the tracks.

4. Bellevue City Council member Claudia Balducci, rumored to be King County Executive Dow Constantine's first choice to fill an open seat on the Sound Transit Board, apparently has some competition: Bellevue Mayor Grant Degginger, is reportedly also in the running. As we reported earlier this week, Constantine will appoint six new members of the Sound Transit board by early January.

Those appointments will have to be approved by the King County Council.

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