Friday Telegraph Room
... The Postman says the governor and the state auditor separately hired the same pollster to ask the same questions—about how the public perceives the performance of government. ... It's official: Tim Eyman is a computer-generated cartoon character. ...
... Knee-slapper: The P-I's Go 2 Guy predicts the Mariners will win the AL West. Dave Cameron of the USS Mariner blog has a deep analysis of the surge and writes:
A month ago, we were counting down the days until Mike Hargrove was fired and figuring out if any of the veterans had trade value to flip for prospects in the annual summer sell off. Right now, however, breaking up this team is incomprehendable, as this is the most fun Mariners fans have had in years.
... The Seattle law firm that represents defense contractor Boeing played a role in yesterday's Gitmo smackdown by SCOTUS. ... The price of B.C. Bud just went up with the big bust of treetop flyers who were "better than FedEx." ... King County Council reps miss a lot of meetings—9 percent to 28 percent, depending on the member. ... They're testing the monorail, which is set to resume service Aug. 1. ...
... After the jump, a hockey arena in Kent! ...
... Kent is talking about building a $35 million, 6,500-seat arena that would be the home of the Seattle Thunderbirds minor-league hockey team, says the King County Journal. The T-Birds now play at KeyArena. To the Thunderbirds' credit, they aren't threatening to leave Seattle—they're just going to leave. ... In other South County pro-sports news, Peter Callahan of the News Tribune wonders who's really paying for the $65 million Seahawks practice palace in Renton while taxpayers are paying for Qwest Field.
When the Seahawks and nearly every other NFL team take hundreds of millions of tax dollars, how do we know where public money stops and private money begins? Well, we might have known had state Attorney General Rob McKenna not given Seahawks owner Paul Allen a pass on disclosing the team’s financial statement. That was one of the requirements in the 1997 law that turned over $300 million in public money for Questionable Accounting Practices Field. But McKenna bought the pitch from Allen’s lawyers that the Legislature didn’t really mean what the Legislature meant.
In a story we wrote last year, you can learn more about the battle to open the Qwest Field books. ...
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