1. As Jonah reported yesterday , details from a police report filed in September raise questions about a 19-year-old protester's claim that she was three months pregnant and miscarried after she was pepper sprayed by Seattle police last week. The woman, Jennifer Fox, told the media she was three months pregnant and her story went viral after the Stranger's blog Slog first posted her pregnancy as fact.

But the September SPD report (Fox was among a small group contacted by the police for trespassing at a former Grayhound maintenance facility near Capitol Hill) states that she also told police at that time she was three months pregnant and complained about stomach pain while crying and holding her stomach. We have a call in to Fox. (We never ran her original story.)[pullquote]The Seattle Times has also done some basic reporting which raises questions about Fox's story.[/pullquote]

KIRO-FM did reach her and asked her about the apparent discrepancy. Fox told KIRO the police must have misheard her when she said she was one month pregnant.

The Seattle Times has also done some basic reporting which raises questions about Fox's story.

2.The city council and mayor are finalizing their legislative agenda for the 2012 legislative session---the list of priorities that the city's lobbyists will pursue in Olympia.

In marked contrast to last year---when discussions over the legislative agenda got bogged down in debate over whether the council's or the mayor's agenda would be the starting point for crafting a joint list of priorities---this year's process has reportedly been collaborative. Some of the highlights of the city's 2012 wish list:

Passing legislation to protect children from sexual exploitation, particularly online sexual exploitation, an issue that McGinn and city council member Tim Burgess have raised frequently with regard to Backpage.com, a classified web site affiliated with the Seattle Weekly that has been linked to juvenile sex trafficking.

Creating new local tax options to raise revenue to pay for transit, job creation programs, and incentives for the local film industry.

Preserving funding for the Neighborhood Corrections Initiative, a program in which local and state law enforcement collaborate to monitor and help offenders who have been released into the community.

Creating a statewide regulatory framework for medical marijuana.[pullquote]Thirteen Democrats voted against the bill, but US Sen. Murray was not among them.[/pullquote]

Changing tenant screening laws to make them more fair, including improved protection for domestic violence victims and fee relief for prospective tenants.

Crafting a statewide transportation package for voter approval that includes substantial funding for cities to pay for maintenance backlogs; includes sustainable transit funding; results in expanded transit service for areas with the greatest demand; and meets the city and state's greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Providing additional tools to deal with the misuse of disabled parking placards.

Changing the law to allow cities to set speed limits as low as 20 mph in residential areas without doing lengthy, expensive engineering studies.

Waiving the "two-party consent" rule, which requires police officers wearing body cameras to obtain consent from a suspect before recording them.

The council will adopt the city's legislative agenda in mid-December, in time for the January 2012 session.

3. A group of Lake City residents has formed to express their opposition to a temporary winter homeless shelter at the former Fire Station 39 in Lake City, which served as the temporary home to the Nickelsville homeless encampment earlier this year.

The shelter, which will be operated by the Union Gospel Mission, is set to open on Thanksgiving Day. The shelter will operate at no cost to the city, either in capital improvements (the city plans to tear the building down after the temporary shelter closes in April and build low-income housing on the property) or for operations (Union Gospel is operating the shelter at no charge to the city, including staffing, security, services like case management and substance-abuse treatment programs, and a community advisory committee to address neighborhood concerns with the 100-bed shelter.[pullquote]The group said the shelter is too large, too close to single-family homes, schools, and playgrounds, and will open up the area to "inevitable issues" with public safety.[/pullquote]

The new group, called Families for Lake City, describes itself as " a group of neighbors speaking out to keep Lake City safe, successful, and family-friendly."

In a statement, the group said the fire station shelter is too large for the neighborhood, too close to single-family homes, schools, and playgrounds, and will open up the area to "inevitable issues" with public safety in nearby parks and public areas.

"Shelter residents are not required to stay in the facility or participate in services," the statement says. "We saw the burden this put on local businesses, neighbors public parks and facilities last year when Nickelsville residents were housed in the same location."

Mayor Mike McGinn and City Council member Nick Licata are heading up the effort to open the winter shelter and do outreach to the neighborhood. McGinn spokesman Aaron Pickus says the mayor's office has been meeting with neighborhood residents and listening to their concerns for months.

4. Washington State Republican Party Chair Kirby Wilbur has a gotchya on US Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). As co-chair of the supercommittee that failed to come up with a deficit reduction deal, Murray, blaming the Republicans, told the press that extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy was the "one sticking divide."

Wilbur shot back: “President Obama just signed an extension to the Bush tax cuts in December of 2010. For Patty Murray to be so stuck on an issue that was passed by a [Democratic]-controlled Congress and signed by a [Democratic] president shows how far off the mark she is."

Indeed, the senate voted  81-19 to approve extending all the Bush tax cuts, including for those making above $250,000, last year. Thirteen Democrats—including Sens. Russ Feingold, Carl Levin, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden, and Bernie Sanders (an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats)—  voted against the bill, but Murray was not among them.

Murray did support an earlier bill proposed that month by Obama to only extend the tax cuts for the middle class, but the GOP blocked that bill .

Sen. Murray was explicit at the time (though perhaps not as explicit about it as the 13 who voted no) that while she voted yea on extending all the Bush tax cuts, she didn't support extending them for the wealthy. After the 81-19 vote, she said:

I am disappointed that the only way to protect middle class families from a tax hike in January was to support an extension of all the Bush tax cuts. That’s why I voted twice in the past month to extend tax cuts for our middle class families who have been hurt most by our economic downturn. I am angry that Republicans played political games and held the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Unfortunately, protecting the vast majority of Washington families came with an unnecessary and irresponsible provision for a very few Americans who aren’t facing those same hardships.

There is absolutely no question that extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans is a wasteful and irresponsible portion of this compromise. Getting our economy back on track and our fiscal house in order simultaneously means that we have to make smart investments. Adding to the debt by indiscriminately giving tax breaks to wealthy Americans is a not a smart investment.