PubliCola Adds Life

The Cola’s first ever Nerd Hour was a blast. Thanks everybody for coming. And thanks to the Five Point Cafe for letting us take over half your bar.

Join us for our first Nerd Hour. Now at the Five Point Cafe. Drinks, discussion, and debate, starring ECB, Dan Bertolet, and BikeNerd.

Take a sip:
1) Your daily Morning Fizz!
2) KOMOCola!
3) Grant Cogswell is covering for Dan Bertolet, and he’s got some city-planning advice.
4) Ever wanted to go biking with your family and thought, “No, that’s just infeasible!” Well then! BikeNerd’s column today is for you!
5) A Democratic shell game in the 38th Legislative District?
6) We were going to save this for “On Other Blogs Today” (or as we like to call it in the office, OOBT), but we decided we wanted to give it its own post: The PI’s got attorneys duking it out over 1098.
7) Our last Bumbershoot passes have left the building. A winner in our ’90s essay contest.
8 ) Our daily roundup: OOBT!
9) Your daily Afternoon Jolt. Warning: We get pretty inside baseball on this one.
Links after the jump.

Every Friday morning at 9:45, PubliCola hits the airwaves on KOMO News Radio (1000 AM) to talk about this week’s news. Tune in today.

Take a sip:
1) Your daily Morning Fizz
2) Metro bus drivers union says County is “Hell Bent” against them.
3) Mayor McGinn’s political coalition jeopardizes his endgame.
4) Nerd Alert! Five Point. Tuesday. Be there.
5) Forget Nicole Brodeur. This time “The C is for Crank” calls b.s. on Joni Balter.
6) A little Thursday KOMO Cola.
7) Is Gregoire for I-1098 or not?
8 ) Our daily roundup: On Other Blogs Today.
9) This week’s guest Cola columnist: Grant “Grassroots” Cogswell.
10) Your daily Afternoon Jolt. The day’s political winner and loser.
Links after the jump.

At or around 3:00 this afternoon, I’ll be on KOMO radio (1000AM) talking about the Metro union, its contract negotiations with the county, and Metro’s ongoing budget shortfall. Tune in.

Take a sip:
1) Your daily Morning Fizz.
2) Tea Party champion John Koster pulls ahead of incumbent U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen in Northwest Washington primary.
3) A message to our commenters.
4) McGinn touts jobs program— sans big union backing.
5) BikeNerd on KUOW.
6) This week’s guest Cola columnist: Grant Cogswell!
7) Sen. Murray sits down with the PI. Gives some tone deaf answers.
8 ) Our Bumbershoot ticket giveaway contest: Explain the ’90s. (If you can).
9) And yet another way Southeast Seattle gets effed over: Not enough trees.
10) The latest Murray v. Rossi scrap: Spending on veterans.
11) Ron Paul for John Koster.
12) Your daily Afternoon Jolt.
13) Our daily roundup: On Other Blogs Today.
Links after the jump.

Bertolet is still on vacay. This week’s guest columnist—Grant Cogswell. Stay tuned.

One thing PubliCola prides itself on is our thoughtful commenters—you guys are heavy on the policy debates and don’t usually get bogged down with name calling and middle school food fights. As the election season begins, consider this a reminder to keep it that way. Thanks.