Morning Fizz
Based on the Latest Census Data
1. If you're looking for our coverage of the Conlin vs. McGinn fracas, we've conveniently collected it in one post for you. It's all right here
, including LawNerd's opinion on who's right.
2. Washington State is in line to get a 10th congressional district based on the latest census data. (Washington, which has grown by about 92,000 people in the past year to 6,756,150, currently has nine CDs.)
Washington is 434th on the list of in the reapportionment scheme that reconfigures the 435 house seats based on population changes.
Six states—Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington—are in line to add one seat each. Florida would get two seats and Texas would pick up four. Eight states— Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—would lose a seat and New York and Ohio would lose two seats each.
The final census data doesn't come out for three months, so it's not a done deal.
If Washington gets an extra seat, the new districts (to be agreed upon by a citizen commission and voted on by the state legislature) would come into effect for the 2012 election.
The Washington Secretary of State has the details.
3. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes stars in an anti-I-1100 mailer. (I-1100 is one of two liquor privatization initiatives on the ballot this year.)
"Seattle cannot afford hundreds of new hard liquor retailers in our neighborhoods and near our schools," Holmes is quoted as saying in the ad. "Combine more access with fewer resources for police and prosecutors and we will face lasting problems in our communities."
The state Office of Financial Management estimates that 1100 will cost local governments $190 million over five years. OFM also estimates that the number of outlets selling hard booze would increase from 315 to over 3,300. (For a comparison: There are currently 700 Starbucks in the state.)
4. After yesterday's raucous day at city hall, council member Sally Bagshaw had to rush off to check out the site that would potentially house a space shuttle in Seattle.
Seattle's Museum of Flight is competing to get one of three space shuttles that are being retired and put into museums—the Endeavour, the Atlantis, and the Enterprise—and Bagshaw, a pilot, is on the team that's trying to land the shuttle for the East Marginal Way S. museum.
5. They exchange bitter accusations and snarky rejoinders daily (no, not McGinn and Conlin)—Patty Murray spokeswoman Julie Edwards and Dino Rossi spokeswoman Jennifer Morris. (Yesterday Edwards wanted to know why "Mr. Rossi" was opposed to credits and tax cuts for small business while Morris wanted to know why Murray would "kill jobs" at Microsoft.)
And so it goes.
Both Edwards and Morris will be at the Five Point Cafe in Belltown after work today to hang out with Cola readers at our latest NerdHour. Fun starts at 5. (Oh, and Clint Didier's former spokeswoman, Kathryn Serkes—of F-bomb infamy—is threatening to show too.)
2. Washington State is in line to get a 10th congressional district based on the latest census data. (Washington, which has grown by about 92,000 people in the past year to 6,756,150, currently has nine CDs.)
Washington is 434th on the list of in the reapportionment scheme that reconfigures the 435 house seats based on population changes.
Six states—Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington—are in line to add one seat each. Florida would get two seats and Texas would pick up four. Eight states— Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—would lose a seat and New York and Ohio would lose two seats each.
The final census data doesn't come out for three months, so it's not a done deal.
If Washington gets an extra seat, the new districts (to be agreed upon by a citizen commission and voted on by the state legislature) would come into effect for the 2012 election.
The Washington Secretary of State has the details.
3. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes stars in an anti-I-1100 mailer. (I-1100 is one of two liquor privatization initiatives on the ballot this year.)
"Seattle cannot afford hundreds of new hard liquor retailers in our neighborhoods and near our schools," Holmes is quoted as saying in the ad. "Combine more access with fewer resources for police and prosecutors and we will face lasting problems in our communities."
The state Office of Financial Management estimates that 1100 will cost local governments $190 million over five years. OFM also estimates that the number of outlets selling hard booze would increase from 315 to over 3,300. (For a comparison: There are currently 700 Starbucks in the state.)
4. After yesterday's raucous day at city hall, council member Sally Bagshaw had to rush off to check out the site that would potentially house a space shuttle in Seattle.
Seattle's Museum of Flight is competing to get one of three space shuttles that are being retired and put into museums—the Endeavour, the Atlantis, and the Enterprise—and Bagshaw, a pilot, is on the team that's trying to land the shuttle for the East Marginal Way S. museum.
5. They exchange bitter accusations and snarky rejoinders daily (no, not McGinn and Conlin)—Patty Murray spokeswoman Julie Edwards and Dino Rossi spokeswoman Jennifer Morris. (Yesterday Edwards wanted to know why "Mr. Rossi" was opposed to credits and tax cuts for small business while Morris wanted to know why Murray would "kill jobs" at Microsoft.)
And so it goes.
Both Edwards and Morris will be at the Five Point Cafe in Belltown after work today to hang out with Cola readers at our latest NerdHour. Fun starts at 5. (Oh, and Clint Didier's former spokeswoman, Kathryn Serkes—of F-bomb infamy—is threatening to show too.)
