Morning Fizz
Swoon Worthy
1. We have a winner in our Neumos ticket giveaway. Kevin Meadows won two tickets to the SXSW sendoff show on Friday night for Mash Hall, Visqueen, Fences, and Hey Marseilles.
Kevin, a Beacon Hill resident who works as a software project manager at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in the HIV/AIDS vaccine research division, correctly named Hey Marseilles as the band on Friday's bill that also played at Mayor Mike McGinn's inauguration bash.
Says Kevin (exclamation mark his): "I've always wanted to go to SXSW, and I'm glad to send a few local acts off to the big show!"
2. Yesterday we highlighted Seattle's fight in Olympia to save the GA-U program—General Assistance for the Unemployable, which could be cut as much as $90 million.
Another legislative priority for Seattle's lobbying squad in Olympia was to upgrade a bill that would lower inspection standards on rentals. The bill limits the number of things on the inspection checklist (let's not worry about mold and pests, leaking, ventilation, overcrowding) and changes the standards so that there would have to be "substantial" threats to a tenant's safety and health as opposed to flagging problems that might escalate.
Bad news for Seattle (where higher standards will now be overruled when it comes to inspections), the bill passed the Senate in February (with only 7 against, including nays from Seattle Senators Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Joe McDermott, and Ed Murray, along with Tacoma liberals Rosa Franklin and Debbie Regala.) And it passed the House—96-0—this week.
3. We were excited to debut two new PubliCola columnists yesterday, BikeNerd Josh Cohen and FoodNerd Angela Garbes. And judging from some of the comments—"My mouth is watering. Fantastic article!" and "the bikenerd is so swoon worthy"—you guys like them too.
We've got two more excellent writers/reporters joining the Cola this week. Stay tuned.
4. We did find one do-gooder budget amendment from the House liberals yesterday that wouldn't add expenses to the general fund. (House lefties are seeking nearly $150 million in adds.)
Southwest Washington Rep. Tim Probst's (D-17) amendment to put $5 million toward renewable energy programs uses $5 million in lottery money for no net change to the budget.
Kevin, a Beacon Hill resident who works as a software project manager at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in the HIV/AIDS vaccine research division, correctly named Hey Marseilles as the band on Friday's bill that also played at Mayor Mike McGinn's inauguration bash.
Says Kevin (exclamation mark his): "I've always wanted to go to SXSW, and I'm glad to send a few local acts off to the big show!"
2. Yesterday we highlighted Seattle's fight in Olympia to save the GA-U program—General Assistance for the Unemployable, which could be cut as much as $90 million.
Another legislative priority for Seattle's lobbying squad in Olympia was to upgrade a bill that would lower inspection standards on rentals. The bill limits the number of things on the inspection checklist (let's not worry about mold and pests, leaking, ventilation, overcrowding) and changes the standards so that there would have to be "substantial" threats to a tenant's safety and health as opposed to flagging problems that might escalate.
Bad news for Seattle (where higher standards will now be overruled when it comes to inspections), the bill passed the Senate in February (with only 7 against, including nays from Seattle Senators Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Joe McDermott, and Ed Murray, along with Tacoma liberals Rosa Franklin and Debbie Regala.) And it passed the House—96-0—this week.
3. We were excited to debut two new PubliCola columnists yesterday, BikeNerd Josh Cohen and FoodNerd Angela Garbes. And judging from some of the comments—"My mouth is watering. Fantastic article!" and "the bikenerd is so swoon worthy"—you guys like them too.
We've got two more excellent writers/reporters joining the Cola this week. Stay tuned.
4. We did find one do-gooder budget amendment from the House liberals yesterday that wouldn't add expenses to the general fund. (House lefties are seeking nearly $150 million in adds.)
Southwest Washington Rep. Tim Probst's (D-17) amendment to put $5 million toward renewable energy programs uses $5 million in lottery money for no net change to the budget.
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