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T-Mobile executive Joseph Mallahan.

Emely Haftter, Seattle Times

Publicola has a post this morning about the spotty voting record of Seattle’s newest mayoral candidate, T-Mobile executive Joseph Mallahan. He has missed six of 18 elections since 2000, including the 2007 general election, when Seattle elected five new City Council members. (read more…)

Justice Sonia Sotomayo

WASHINGTON, (AFP) – President Barack Obama seized his first chance to reshape the US Supreme Court, nominating judge Sonia Sotomayor, who has an American story to rival his own, as the first Hispanic justice. (read more…)