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The Group that Fights Sprawl
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1. City council challenger Brad Meacham rolled out a list of lefty endorsements yesterday, including state Rep. Marko Liias; the Sierra Club; and Real Change director Tim Harris.
Also (and incongruously) on the list: Former mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, a former T-Mobile executive who ran as the business candidate against Mike McGinn in 2009.
2. In case you missed it, yesterday Erica wrote a big-deal story about an amendment that state Sen. Ed Murray (D-43, Seattle)—along with co-sponsor state Sen. Scott White (D-46, Seattle)—added to the stadium tax bill giving Safeco Field the authority to take over a parking tax from the city. It turns out it will cost Seattle up to $300,000 a year.
She'll be on KOMO AM 1000 with Ken Schram today at 12:30 to discuss the news.
3. Pioneer Human Services, a group that helps former prisoners re-enter society, honored city council member Tim Burgess last night with its Annual Champion Award for his work helping girls and young women escape sex trafficking and exploitation. Burgess took the lead in raising funds for The Bridge, a residential recovery program for girls who were victims of sex trafficking.
Burgess is widely thought to be considering a run for mayor against Mike McGinn, who has made sex trafficking his signature issue, fighting to get Village Voice Media, which owns Seattle Weekly, to crack down on child sex trafficking on its classified site, Backpage.com.
4. US Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) is—now the highest-ranking woman in the house since US Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) got demoted to the minority party—is continuing to take on the role of IMF watchdog.
Earlier this year, McMorris Rodgers introduced legislation mandating that any unused dollars from the $100 billion the US gave to the IMF in 2009 must be reassigned to help pay off the US deficit.
The cause is popular with the Tea Party and now McMorris Rodgers is demanding a meeting with new IMF head Christine Lagarde to get an accounting of how the US dollars, which make up about 17 percent of the IMF budget, have been spent to date.
McMorris Rodgers grouses that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not been forthcoming about how or how much of the $100 billion has been spent.
5. Futurewise, the environmental group that fights in the courts and in Olympia to defend growth management regulations and fight sprawl, announced a new executive director last night, environmental attorney and green Bainbridge Island City Council member Hilary Franz .
Franz, a Washington Environmental Council and Conservation Northwest board member, has defended the Growth Management Act and the Shoreline Management Act (another Futurewise favorite) in front of the Washington State Supreme Court.
Perfect fit. The group, which has been without a permanent director for more than two years, announced the hire last night at a dinner and fundraiser at Kaspar's in Queen Anne.
1. City council challenger Brad Meacham rolled out a list of lefty endorsements yesterday, including state Rep. Marko Liias; the Sierra Club; and Real Change director Tim Harris.
Also (and incongruously) on the list: Former mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, a former T-Mobile executive who ran as the business candidate against Mike McGinn in 2009.
2. In case you missed it, yesterday Erica wrote a big-deal story about an amendment that state Sen. Ed Murray (D-43, Seattle)—along with co-sponsor state Sen. Scott White (D-46, Seattle)—added to the stadium tax bill giving Safeco Field the authority to take over a parking tax from the city. It turns out it will cost Seattle up to $300,000 a year.
She'll be on KOMO AM 1000 with Ken Schram today at 12:30 to discuss the news.
3. Pioneer Human Services, a group that helps former prisoners re-enter society, honored city council member Tim Burgess last night with its Annual Champion Award for his work helping girls and young women escape sex trafficking and exploitation. Burgess took the lead in raising funds for The Bridge, a residential recovery program for girls who were victims of sex trafficking.
Burgess is widely thought to be considering a run for mayor against Mike McGinn, who has made sex trafficking his signature issue, fighting to get Village Voice Media, which owns Seattle Weekly, to crack down on child sex trafficking on its classified site, Backpage.com.
4. US Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) is—now the highest-ranking woman in the house since US Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) got demoted to the minority party—is continuing to take on the role of IMF watchdog.
Earlier this year, McMorris Rodgers introduced legislation mandating that any unused dollars from the $100 billion the US gave to the IMF in 2009 must be reassigned to help pay off the US deficit.
The cause is popular with the Tea Party and now McMorris Rodgers is demanding a meeting with new IMF head Christine Lagarde to get an accounting of how the US dollars, which make up about 17 percent of the IMF budget, have been spent to date.
McMorris Rodgers grouses that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not been forthcoming about how or how much of the $100 billion has been spent.
5. Futurewise, the environmental group that fights in the courts and in Olympia to defend growth management regulations and fight sprawl, announced a new executive director last night, environmental attorney and green Bainbridge Island City Council member Hilary Franz .
Franz, a Washington Environmental Council and Conservation Northwest board member, has defended the Growth Management Act and the Shoreline Management Act (another Futurewise favorite) in front of the Washington State Supreme Court.
Perfect fit. The group, which has been without a permanent director for more than two years, announced the hire last night at a dinner and fundraiser at Kaspar's in Queen Anne.
