Episode 33 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast asks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray about what he did in 2015, what hes gonna do in 2016, and who he plans to party with on New Years Eve. (Wanna subscribe to the show on iTunes? Right here!)
Episode 33 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast asks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray about what he did in 2015, what he’s gonna do in 2016, and who he plans to party with on New Years Eve. (Wanna subscribe to the show on iTunes? Right here!) Kelly O
Blabbermouth December 18, 2015


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This is our last Blabbermouth of 2015—see you in the New Year!—and it’s a great one, full of year-end reflections, current issues, and even one Proustian moment.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is on the show to talk about what he sees as his biggest accomplishment of the year, his biggest bit of unfinished business for 2015, why he just refused to sign a city council bill to let ridehailing app drivers unionize, and what he’s thinking about next year’s light rail expansion vote. (Also discussed: which new city council member Ed wants to hang out with first.)

After that, Stranger Arts and Music Editor Sean Nelson will be on to talk about the agony and the ecstasy of the end-of-year list. (He just made a bunch of lists himself.)

And then Stranger film editor Charles Mudede will be on the show to talk about an interesting exhibit that’s up now at the Northwest African American Museum about Black Hanford, as well as a new movie—you might have heard of it—called Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Plus, as always, the music of Ahamefule J. Oluo!

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...