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On Other Blogs Today: Mayor McGinn’s Nightlife Initiative

Politics   August 27, 2010 at 4:18 pm Bryce McKay

1. At the Slog, in a video interview with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, the Stranger hones in on gay rights. Murray was in the Pike/Pine business corridor visiting small businesses and Dominic Holden asked her about her 1996 vote for the Defense of Marriage Act—which defines marriage as being between a man and woman and says one state doesn’t have to recognize gay marriages from any other state.

2. Central District News has a rundown of last night’s East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition  no-holds-barred cagematch. More than fifty people showed up to discuss Mayor Mike McGinn’s nightlife initiative. Vibrant Nightlife versus peace and quiet. WHO WILL WIN?

3. For an adorable picture of a little kid in a cute hat, click here. It’s also a story by Jennifer Langston at Sightline about buses as the safest method of transit.

4. Over at the Seattle Times‘ Politics Northwest blog, reporter Jim Brunner makes fun Pam Roach’s weird campaign ad. Apparently Pam Roach thinks the state budget is furry cat, or something.




  • Racematters

    I can’t believe you characterized the east precinct nightlife conversation as vibrancy versus peace and quiet. That is an insult to the important conversation about race that actually happened. Publicola, if you weren’t there than don’t report like you know anything. You clearly don’t! The Central District News nailed the storyand got the facts straight with solid reporting. You are just being irresponsible. This really makes me question your reporting about events I didn’t attend. You just lost my trust.

  • Josh Feit

    This daily post is called “On Other Blogs Today” because we’re linking other sites on stories we may have missed.

    In other words, this isn’t our reporting.

    We linked the Central District News in this instance because they were there doing some good reporting.

  • Racematters

    Way state the obvious to avoid the point, which is you changed the topic of the conversation which you are citing. You completely avoided the real conversation that the original piece spent a lot of time covering for the public.

    Your aggregation of other People’s work should have said this: conversation about nightlife policies turns into a conversation about race.

    That is what happened.