Seattle Transit Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Publicola reports that Seattle’s Mayor-elect Mike McGinn may skip taking a role on the Sound Transit board, instead giving his support to incoming city councilmember Mike O’Brien for the position. Richard Conlin, the city council president, plans to remain on the Sound Transit board. The Sound Transit board is the group of elected officials that [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The SECB is having a perfectly lovely time at City Council candidate Mike O'Brien 's basement party at the Fremont Abbey, where a crowd of about 40 folks are milling around quaffing high-end microbrews and waiting for the 8:15 results dump. The crowd seems more hopeful than O'Brien is comfortable with, and when he addresses the group, he pointedly cools them down. "If it's...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The race for City Council Position 8 has been particularly nasty, thanks to a well-financed campaign that outspent former Sierra Club chair Mike O'Brien three to one. The opposition campaign for Robert Rosencrantz , a conservative by Seattle standards, was bolstered by support from Forward Seattle, a PAC funded by landlords and realtors, which unleashed mailers an attempt to paint O'Brien...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I’m not much into the idea of publishing endorsements, because anybody who reads me regularly should already know where I stand on the races I cover, but I thought I’d make an exception to mention a race I haven’t written much about: the Seattle City Council contest between Robert Rosencrantz and Mike O’Brien. Vote for O’Brien. In the end, it really...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In the city's most sharply-contested City Council race, Mike O'Brien, environmentalist and former chief financial officer of a law firm, was leading with 57.91 percent of votes in the ballot counts Tuesday night.
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Mayor Mike McGinn 50.03% Joe Mallahan 48.96% City Attorney Pete Holmes 61.56% Tom Carr 38.24% Council Position No. 2 Richard Conlin 75.40% David Ginsberg 24.31% Council Position No. 4 Sally Bagshaw 68.58% David Bloom 31.17% Council Position No. 6 Nick Licata 57.73% Jessie Israel 42.03% Council Position No. 8 Mike O'Brien 57.91% Robert Rosencrantz 41.86% Proposition No. 1 YES 63.33%...
Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
MPs in Cornwall have secured a meeting with health minister Mike O’Brien over the controversial relocation of upper gastro-intestinal cancer services in the county.
Slog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... used money belt. (Here's an idea: smell it!!!) Or a drink with the city council's hottest hottie Mike O'Brien . (Here's an idea: look at how hot he is!) Bonus! If you buy a deck of fancy-panstsy original Stranger playing cards ($20), I will personally come to your house and play a game of Hearts with you.* And I will win.** There are oh-so-many, many, many things you should be bidding...
The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Earlier today, Minister for Health Services Mike O'Brien, the Department of Health's Chief Scientist David Harper, and Kent Woods, Chief Executive of the MHRA were questioned by MPs as part of the Science and Technology Select Committee's "Evidence Check" on homeopathy. read more
Netbaza.net (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Release Date : Genre : Drama Cast : (Credited cast) , Nisreen Faour as Muna Farah , Melkar Muallem as Fadi Farah , Hiam Abbass as Raghda Halaby , Alia Shawkat as Salma , Jenna Kawar as Rana Halaby , Selena Haddad as Lamis Halaby , Yussuf Abu-Warda as Nabeel Halaby , Joseph Ziegler as Mr. Novatski , Andrew Sannie as James , Daniel Boiteau as Mike , Brodie Sanderson as Matt rest of cast listed...
thepharmaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A pilot to help patients get innovative new drugs not currently available on the UK’s National Health Service was launched for consultation on November 27 by Health Minister Mike O’Brien and Science and Innovation Minister Lord Paul Drayson.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
A pilot to help patients get innovative new drugs not currently available on the NHS is being launched for consultation today by Health Minister Mike O’Brien and Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson. The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) Blueprint published in July, detailed the Government’s commitment to create an ‘Innovation Pass’ pilot to allow patients...
ModernityBlog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Politicians and politicos often live in a bubble, of their own making, where outside perceptions are frequently disregarded and they begin to believe their own spin. I think it is partly a problem of incumbency and in part the arrogance of power, so it is with new Labour and the NHS. Mike O’Brien, health Minister, has [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
30th November, 2009 | Government defence of NHS watchdogThe Government has defended the NHS regulator after a report found a raft of underperforming hospitals and consistently high death rates.Related Tags:Health Minister Mike O'Brien said work by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was more reliable and broader in scope than a league table compiled by Dr Foster Intelligence into hospitals'...
D B Double (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
More on better direction for NHS (see earlier post ). Mike O'Brien, health minister, has described the kind of NHS manager that will be named and shamed (see HSJ article ): “It’s those who duck the difficult decisions, who hide in the quiet safety of their offices, or employ consultants to make decisions for them - who won’t put their heads above the parapet, not daring...
