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Early in the a.m. on Saturday, April 28, two windows at Pike Street's Baltic Room were smashed. Managers at the club think the vandals may have been a group of three white yuppies in their 30s who had whined at last call when asked to leave. Indeed, the trio called the Baltic Room doorman a "hippie faggot" before taking off in a Range Rover (of course). BRADLEY STEINBACHER
Disappointment #1
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City Council Member Richard McIver got lucky. Last week, Ann Donovan, president of the Capitol Hill Community Council, decided not to run for his job.
Donovan had considered running after an April 3 transportation committee meeting where McIver pooh-poohed her concerns about light rail's expected impacts on Martin Luther King Junior Way and Broadway. Donovan was at the meeting to support a failed resolution for more neighborhood oversight of light rail.
It's too bad Donovan decided against running (she says it's too much of a commitment). Smart, angry, and attractive, Donovan would have given the do-nothing, vulnerable incumbent a well-deserved challenge. JOSH FEIT
Disappointment #2
A Sunday Seattle Times/NorthWest Cable News poll gauging public support for Sound Transit and light rail failed to ask a key question: Do you support the monorail?
Before you accuse The Stranger of being obsessed, please note that the poll did question the public about other alternatives, asking, for example, if taxpayers would approve transferring their $2 billion commitment from light rail to expanded bus and van-pool service.
The closest the survey got to mentioning the M-word came during question #3. "Should [Sound Transit] abandon the light rail project and use the money to develop transportation solutions other than light rail?" 40 percent said yes to that one. Meanwhile, 50 percent of those surveyed said they would never ride the SeaTac to U-District light-rail line. JOSH FEIT
Disappointment #3
On Friday, April 27, city council members and staffers attended a retreat at the Mt. Baker Community Center to talk about "workplace values"--a bureaucratic euphemism for race.
The meeting was a follow-up to last January's annual city council retreat where intra-office race relations emerged as a thorny topic of concern.
Unfortunately, according to attendees at the recent Friday meeting, race never came up. NANCY DREW
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