Stories for July 17, 2008

Sausage Links, fancy-pants luncheon edition

The Queen of fist-bumps, New Yorker cover girl Michelle Obama, is in Seattle today to headline a fundraiser for Gov. Chris Gregoire. The event is expected to bring in $400,000 for Gregoire's re-election campaign. Seattle Times chief political reporter David Postman will have live coverage of the event as it develops, while Eli Sanders at the Stranger already has pictures from the WaMu Theater. ...

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Crosscut exposed

Valued knowledge consumers, This is your editor speaking. I'll be appearing on TV tonight to talk about Crosscut past, present, and future as a guest on Public Exposure, a weekly public-affairs show hosted by Stan Emert. The program will air at 8 p.m. on cable channel 77 (Comcast) or 23 (BroadStripe). That's SCANtv, the city's public access channel.

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Sound Transit showdown

The votes for a 2008 submission of a $15 billion package now are almost there, thanks to some last-minute concessions to Snohomish County. The election will be risky, but the transit agency faces greater risk by waiting until 2010.

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