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We're looking to create an updated Wallyhood candidate Q&A for the general election, with these goals: Surface differences between the candidates Where possible, cover Wallingford specific (District 4) or Tangletown / Fremont specific (District 6) issues Cover the key areas of revenue reform, transportation, low income housing, neighborhood planning, and priorities For District 4 (Wallingford) our primary Q&A favored Tony Provine in online votes. Unfortunately, Wallyhood doesn't have the pull of the simple minded socialists at The Stranger, who we wish would move…

The Seattle Education Association had a membership meeting last night, including not just teachers but specialists, aides and office workers - really everyone who interacts with kids at SPS. The union and the district have been negotiating since May but have decided nothing much at all so far, about 2 weeks before the start of the school year. Kind of a bad position to be in- ideally there'd be a contract to vote on at this point, even if the vote…

Did you know Sound Transit is thinking about running rail through Wallingford? Well, they never came to Wallingford to ask, but they are in fact planning it. Hell, I wouldn't have known if Mike Ruby hadn't told me, and he didn't even know until a week and a half ago. You might think "that's nice, maybe I'll use it", but if you think that then you clearly don't understand what adding light rail means. Light rail costs over a half billion dollars…

The SPS Wonkathon votes have been very one sided in favor of Rick Burke, so I'm going to compress the last two wonkathon posts into one here and eliminate the vote. When you have an imbalanced situation like this I don't see a point in dragging things out. I would like to thank both candidates for taking part, and I look forward to working with victor in the election to address issues with Seattle Public Schools going forward. Sherry Carr did a…