Chris Grygiel, the longtime PI reporter and editor who has powered the site's news coverage since the paper went online-only in 2009, posted his last piece for the news outlet on Sunday—a lively interview with Mayor Mike McGinn. Grygiel has taken a gig as the editor of the regional AP bureau.

The interview with the mayor is classic McGinn, who condemns the establishment (still); hypes alternative transportation; and advocates for policies to fight global warming.

Not only are these classic McGinn themes—"Those with money use it to accumulate power to accumulate more money"—but it's also classic McGinn in that he's lawyerly with the rhetoric. And I don't mean rhetoric as in propaganda, I mean rhetoric as in deft debating.

Watch McGinn turn Grygiel's gotcha right on its head.

PI.com: Prop 1, the $60 car tab fee proposal on the November ballot, is a big item for you and the City Council. One argument that opponents make is one that should be familiar to you. They say it’s the wrong time to be asking for more money and that the money is not directed to the right things. They say it should be tweaked, made more specific and returned to voters at a future date. You said the same thing when you opposed the statewide roads and transit measure in 2007. Do you recognize they took a page from your book?

McGinn: Yeah, fair enough. We also opposed roads and transit because it made global warming worse. This one will help you, it’s going to make transit better. We’re going to move buses through the streets faster, we’re going to be able to do some expansion of the local rail network, not the regional network, but the thing that connects our neighborhoods to each other. And we’ll be able to take care of our streets, too, we’ll have more maintenance money for streets. Of course, it’s the nature of these things that the arguments tend to have similarities, but you have to look at what this package does, it’s a really good investment in the city. And if we don’t do it, we’re going to have to figure out how to pay for it. I think the other thing I’d say is this package doesn’t build $8 billion of new suburban highways like the roads and transit ballot measure did. This one’s going to work on local streets that everyone uses here.