1. The Department of Neighborhoods is trying like hell to help the businesses in South Park deal with the imminent South Park Bridge closure .

One shot of hope: DON expedited Muy Macho's liquor license. South Park's best tacqueria just got a little better.

2. Politico has more on the story we first reported earlier this week—that Sarah Palin is planning to do fundraisers for local Tea Party candidate, Clint Didier.

3. The Seattle Times had the scoop yesterday: The City Council is urging Mayor Mike McGinn to reopen the police chief search.

4. Now that Costco says it has enough signatures to put I-1100—one of the liquor privatization measure—on the ballot, Morning Fizz thought it would give some deep advice to the privatization opponents at the United Food and Commercial Workers union, UFCW, which represents the workers at state-run liquor stores: Tell Costco you won't fight the measure—which will save Costco from putting another half-a-million dollars into a bitter campaign (as Camden first reported , they've already contributed $535,000 to the signature drive) if Costco will agree to unionize their work force.

The Fizz can't take credit for the clever political advice. We overheard a local labor leader from another union spell out the strategy last night. (And admittedly, UFCW should have made the offer before Costco started writing checks at all).

5. We've made some improvements to the site: smarter navigation, cleaner layout, and we've moved PubliCalendar up to a permanent spot between the lead story and the blog. A couple of more changes are on the way.

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