One thing that gets lost in the news about Seattle Post-Intelligencer employees returning to work is that not all P-I employees are returning. Only 130 P-I former strikers are back at their desks. The roughly 475 folks who work in classified sales, display ad sales, circulation, and production for the P-I are still on strike.

Why? Under a joint operating agreement, those people are Times employees, not P-I employees. (The Times, obviously, is still on strike.) So while P-I cartoonist David Horsey starts to draw again, scabs will still be trying to sell P-I ad space.

The decision to split the strike was intended to pressure the Times to settle, say representatives of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild. It was also meant to reward P-I management's good behavior during the strike. Mean-spirited Times publisher Frank Blethen is still trying to permanently replace his paper's striking workers, which is evidently okay with former Times striker Nicole Brodeur. PHIL CAMPBELL

Double Agent

Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran has asked staff attorney Edwin Inkley to defend the city against the latest attack from civil rights crusader Dave Osgood. On behalf of music community activists from JAMPAC, Osgood filed a King County Superior Court lawsuit to repeal the Teen Dance Ordinance (TDO). ["Smells Like Teen Lawsuit 2," Pat Kearney, Dec 28.]

Choosing Inkley to battle Osgood was a sly move on Sidran's part. Inkley has inside info on the anti-TDO cause. Last year, the Sidran staffer worked closely with the city-appointed Music and Youth Task Force (which included JAMPAC folks), helping to draft a proposed repeal of the TDO. NANCY DREW