Stateline, a national blog that covers state policy, focuses on the half-dozen initiatives facing Washington State voters this November, noting that while Initiative 1098, the high-earners income tax, could bring in $11 billion to the state, ending the soda and candy tax and privatizing liquor sales could cost the state as much as $870 million.

On her blog, City Council member Sally Clark has a crisis of conscience over graffiti: She likes some of it.

A Seattle Times piece on Seattle resident Steve Sauer's 182-square-foot (!!) apartment gets linked on the popular green-living blog Apartment Therapy.

Ed Shellebey, communications director for US Rep. Jim McDermott, is going to work for Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), Joel Connelly at the PI.com's Strange Bedfellows has the story.

Capitol Hill's Anchovies and Olives is one of the 10 best new restaurants in the US, according to Bon Appetit's BA Foodist.