Here they are:
Ethan Raup will serve as director of policy and external affairs. Raup previously served as director of the Office of Regional Policy and Planning and deputy chief of staff under former King County Executive Ron Sims.
Mark Matassa will serve as director of communications. He is a veteran [...]
I couldn’t help but be amused by the headline of this morning’s Seattle Times editorial: “Crushing the illusion of nonpartisan King County Council.”
IN an election overshadowed by gubernatorial and presidential contests, voters last year opted to change the Metropolitan King County Council from a partisan to a nonpartisan office. [...]
As has been widely reported at Publicola, the P-I and elsewhere, the putatively nonpartisan King County Council deadlocked last night along partisan lines as they struggled to name a replacement to fill Dow Constantine’s vacated seat through the end of 2010.
Which raises a question. Were the Municipal League, [...]
Seattle Times:
A King County jury this morning found Naveed Haq guilty of eight counts, including aggravated first-degree murder, in the 2006 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The murder verdict carries an automatic life sentence for Haq...
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Posted by news intern Sarah Lloyd.
"Weird, Weird, Weird": Last night, the King County Council failed to fill the spot left vacant by Dow Constantine, who was elected King County Executive last month - the West Seattle Blog was live-blogging the meeting that eventually resulted in a deadlock.
Not Again: [...]
Today at 9 am, around 40 people, including the family of fallen Seattle Police officer Timothy Brenton, packed solemnly into King County Courthouse room 1201 for the arraignment of Christopher Monfort, charged with the Halloween murder of Officer Brenton. After the charges were read - one count of arson, three [...]
No, not Maurice Clemmons. This hearing is for the other alleged cop killer, Christopher Monfort, who has been incapacitated at Harboview Hospital since police shot him while he was being apprehended. The King County Prosecutor's office says Monfort, charged with killing Seattle officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween, will be arraigned [...]
I guess as a Republican member of our “nonpartisan” King County Council, Jane Hague has an obligation to help out the King County Republican Party. But considering her own DUI problems, you gotta wonder if she was drunk at the time she contributed the following item to the KCGOP’s [...]
The Stranger requested a bunch of data from King County Elections in order to figure out what the heck happened in November, and while we're still playing around with what we received, our first cut at the data shows a jump in participation by younger voters in the 2009 mayor's [...]
A handful of contenders who are vying to fill a vacant seat on the King County Council are emerging after a committee recommended four potential candidates for the seat last night. As per the council's decree, the advisory committee had to choose at least one person who planned to run [...]
The Seattle P-I’s Chris Grygiel tells it like it is:
How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month’s King County executive’s race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs. Constantine’s strong showing in what, until [...]
We just received this statement from the SPD:
The Seattle Police Department, Seattle Fire Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office have been made aware of an image circulating of deceased suspect Maurice Clemmons.
All three agencies have launched their own internal investigations to determine the origin of the image in [...]
Carl has already thoroughly fisked it over at EFFin’ Unsound (yes, I know Carl, you hate the etymology of the term, but find me a better word that describes what you do), still, I just couldn’t let this Seattle Times editorial pass without comment.
METROPOLITAN King County Council members [...]
