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Crime

Coming Soon To Joni Balter's Column

by Dan Savage • Jun 7, 2010 at 8:00 am

This wouldn't have happened if Mike McGinn had signed Tim Burgess' aggressive panhandling legislation into law. And if Mike McGinn wants to demonstrate that he's serious about stopping gun violence in Belltown he will stop asking questions about tunnel cost overruns.

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