Hey, Republicans: The NFL is a Business

Rush Limbaugh is no longer part of the team of investors hoping to buy the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams. Good riddance. Maybe now Republicans and conservatives can reflect and understand the term ‘picking your battles’ is an adage that doesn’t just translate to a successful marriage.

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Hundreds Rally Against ObamaCare

Hundreds of grassroots opponents of government-run health care lined Northgate Way in Seattle this afternoon. KOMO 4 News reports that “volunteers” for the President’s on-going campaign now housed at the DNC–Organizing for America–took a different approach.

Quoted in their story is “Dustin Lambro,” who isn’t actually a volunteer–he’s a paid organizer for OFA. A closer look at his resume linked above shows he’s got a background in union organizing.

Were you at the “Recess Rally” along Northgate Way today? Send us your photos or video: publisher “at” nwdigest “dot” com.

UPDATE: A reader sent in this link to photos he took at yesterday’s protest.

Bag Tax: Fail, Mayoral: Tie, KC Exec: 37 to 22

The Seattle Bag Tax, as earlier polling suggested, was dead on arrival. No word yet on whether the enviro-left campaigners who championed the measure believe this result will cause the world to end tomorrow.

The big city news, however, is that incumbent Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is currently sitting in third place.  Nickels hasn’t thrown in the towel quite yet, but has a tough fight on his hands, even if he manages to eke out a second place, or first place finish–he’s essentially in a 3-way tie with the other two lead contenders, Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn.

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Seattle Link Light Rail Ridership Report

UPDATE: Welcome Sound Transit employees.  We’re proud that we apparently made your intranet news links!  If you happen to be in the advertising department, you can submit an ad quote request using the form on our Advertise page (we’ve made a note of your ad at the liberal-leaning PubliCola.net).

Courtesy of T. England. Taken today during morning rushour (or what should have been).

Steaming Towards a Fiscal Trainwreck?

After a twelve year absence, Amtrak could return to Boise, and a lot of other places that fall between Seattle and Denver on the old Pioneer Route that was discontinued in 1997.

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