Mayor McGinn Looks to Hit a Long Jumper to Bring Back the NBA and Perhaps Save Himself

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​Author and basketball nut Sherman Alexie pondered recently what it would it mean for the city's psyche to bring back an NBA franchise. "The thing is, if we get a team," he wrote on Sonicsgate, the official site of the 2009 documentary on how Seattle lost its team, "it's going to be somebody else's team. It's not going to be a new franchise. I keep up, so I know who's in trouble. We could get New Orleans, Milwaukee, Indiana, Memphis, Sacramento." Alexie continued:


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Chinese Government Kindly Reminds Seattle Officials About the 'Evil Cult' Coming to Town

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​Over the next two nights in a crowded Seattle hall, a collection of colorfully-costumed characters will perform leaps, tumbles, spins, twirls, and various other theatrics set to the sounds of obscure musical instruments like the pipa and the guzheng. And, if the Chinese government is to be believed, this promotes an "anti-human, anti-science, anti-society" cult.

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Petition to Spurn Plastic Bag Ban Goes Belly-Up

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​Craig Keller, a longtime Republican activist, had high hopes of beating back the City Council's unanimous decision in December to put the kibosh on thin plastic checkout bags at all retail and grocery stores.The effort has apparently crumpled. Keller was able only collect between 2,000 and 3,000 signatures -- far short of meeting yesterday's 16,000 deadline.

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Seattle Is Not Happy With Gov. Chris Gregoire's Tax Collection Plan

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​The prospect of making Olympia command central for all business tax collections in the state is not going down well in Seattle, or any other large city in Washington for that matter. The big cities say they'll end up on the short end of the financial straw because state auditors won't be as aggressive in hunting down cheaters.

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Yolking It Up Over 'Transgendered Hens'

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​Embedded deep inside the city Department of Planning and Development's annual report is a "new enforcement issue" which caught the recent attention of Publicola. Seems the issue concerns "transgender hens."

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Darryl Smith, Deputy Mayor, Calls Belltown a Model for Fighting Crime; Locals Laugh

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​Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith says the city has a model for cleaning up crime along downtown's Third Avenue. That model, he told The Seattle Times a few days ago, is Belltown. Belltown? Really?

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Move Afoot to Stop the Plastic-Bag Ban

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​A Republican activist named Craig Keller is asking Seattle voters to tell "the Chicken Littles on the city council" to take their plastic-bag ban and shove it. The West Seattle man, who gathered signatures to repeal a plastic-bag fee two years ago, is at it again -- this time with a petition drive to put the issue on next year's primary ballot.

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Not Much Dough in Mayor McGinn's Re-Election Kitty

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​When a meager 23 percent of the city's electorate approve of the job Mayor Mike McGinn is doing, it is understandable that money for a possible bid for reelection might be hard to come by. As of November 30, Seattle's bike-loving, tunnel-hating chief executive has raised a total of $31,709. His cash on hand presently sits at $2,258, according to campaign financial reports filed with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission.

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Smith Cove Could be a Park Someday

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​There was a time when Smith Cove was something more than a place on Elliott Bay to store rotting fish nets and watch cruise ships mooring at Terminal 91. In fact, a rather famous skirmish took place at the cove during the Maritime Strike of 1934, when 2,000 striking longshoremen went toe-to-toe for five days with tear gas-toting police and various strikebreakers. It was called "The Battle of Smith Cove."

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J.P. Patches, Seattle TV Icon, Finally Gets a City Dump Named After Him

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​Having a city name its dump after you might sound like a cruel legacy to bestow. But for J.P. Patches, Seattle's most famous TV clown, the tribute is fitting.

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