Seattle police ratify a pay-boosting labor contract

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Strange figure sighted at the City Council

Oddly enough for a public figure, but Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is rather shy. And one place where he rarely shows his face is at City Hall, except around his top-floor offices. So it was big news when he suddenly showed up in City Council offices Thursday, working the corridor and greeting the councilmembers. "It made for a lot of buzz," said Tim Burgess, one councilmember who had been urging Hizzoner to "come on down."

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Sonics lawyers quiz the mayor: Wouldn't it help traffic if they left?

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Spin the bottle: The climate-action mayor misses the point on drinking water

Seattle's tap water is the "gold standard," says Greg Nickels. Really? No, not really. It could be a lot better.

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Seattle's mayor backs the agenda of the schools superintendent

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Seattle releases a map of the 575 most hazardous buildings in an earthquake

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Teens aren't mixing as much as was hoped in mixed-income New Holly

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The Seattle City Council approves widening Mercer Street and the Spokane Street Viaduct

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Product by product, Seattle is studying ways to hold producers responsible for waste

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Seattle neighborhoods at one table

Chapter 3: Members of the City Neighborhood Council refer to the body's role as "holding the city's feet to the fire," but that expression is more incendiary than the reality. The role is advisory, but sometimes its influence can be seen in City Hall initiatives born or programs saved.

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A city of scolds

Seattle City Hall has cracked down on drinking and clubs, it's on the verge of banning fast food and taxing plastic grocery bags, and now even plastic-bottled water is a civic sin. Switch to tap water! says the mayor. Mossback thinks enough is enough.

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Seattle City Council member Richard McIver is accused of an ethics conflict

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The city's own series of tubes

Would municipal broadband service for all residents be better and cheaper than what the free market is providing now? Seattle City Hall wants to find out.

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Seattle reveals the four possible locations for a new jail

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As long as we're beating up on the mayor today ...

Seattle Mayor for Life Greg Nickels is issuing press releases fast and furiously. There are, after all, only 546 days until the election — the 2009 election. And although he has no real opponent as yet, His Excellency has only $129,639.98 in the bank for the 2009 campaign and only took in $29,430.90 in March — and hired fundraiser Colby Underwood got $3,500 of that.

So it's no wonder Nickels' staff is cranking out press releases that attach his name to everything that happens in this town.

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400-foot buildings are proposed for South Lake Union

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Four more streetcar routes are considered, including expansion of the South Lake Union line

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Greg Nickels' rebel yell

Seattle's mayor waves the flag of secession. In so doing, he may have waved goodbye to a future in state politics.

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Sonics cry foul over mingling of legal interests

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A big development in Seattle's Little Saigon gets the city staff's blessing

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