Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
About 300 people are at the Northgate Community Center, where mayor-elect Mike McGinn is announcing staffers for the incoming administration at the first of three town halls, reports news intern Sarah Lloyd. McGinn's deputy mayors will be Phil Fujii , the community relations manager at Vulcan, and Darryl Smith , a Windermere realtor and former city council candidate. Julie McCoy (no, not this Julie...
Slog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
At a candid post-election forum, campaign strategists for Joe Mallahan admitted last night that they hid Joe Mallahan from the press and public to prevent him from damaging his own campaign. In contrast to Mayor-elect Mike McGinn, who accepted press interviews on his cell phone and spoke at 25 town halls, Mallahan was largely inaccessible to reporters and made few public appearances. “If you...
Slog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
On KUOW's Weekday this morning, Seattle Times columnist Joni Balter and a couple of callers wanted to know more about the Mercury Group, the quiet political consulting firm that just helped Mike McGinn win the mayor's race (and also helped Mike O'Brien take a city council seat). As we wrote in this week's Stranger : Go to the website of Seattle's Mercury Group, and you'll find very little except an...
Slog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
(From left to right: Mike McGinn, Jen Nance, Elliott Day, Derek Farmer, and April Thomas.) Seven of the people who worked more than 40 hours a week on the McGinn for Mayor campaign without pay—the core volunteer staff —now have paying jobs. They are Ainsley Close, Aaron Pickus, Elliott Day, Liz Birkholz, Jen Nance, April Thomas, and Derek Farmer. And instead of working out of campaign...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Robert Ullman Who won big (Mercury Group, The Gays, humanity in general), who lost huge (Tom Carr, Tim Eyman, the police and firefighters' unions), who was behind them (Sandeep Kaushik, the religious right, partisan politics, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce), and what it all means : HERE . [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Slog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The morning of November 4, with a narrow 910-vote lead in the race and more than 100,000 ballots outstanding, Mike McGinn had breakfast with campaign volunteers in the back room at Cafe Presse on Capitol Hill. Then he went downtown to the Mercury Group on Second Avenue, the political consulting firm that worked on his campaign. We talked in a big, windowless conference room that looked not unlike...
Slog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
We spoke today at the Mercury Group, the political consulting firm that worked on his campaign, in their offices on Second Avenue. This is an unabridged transcript of our conversation. (Photo by Kristen Blush, taken last night.) How tired are you today? I'm pretty tired. I'm pretty tired. We got to bed late last night, around 12:30 or so, and I'm just in the habit of waking up every morning at 6:30....
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Links suggested by GINRO : Peaceful rally attacked by muslims Demo called off at the request of police Following on from the September 2009 EDL vs UAF riots in Birmingham , we now have further civil unrest appearing outside a new mosque in Harrow , North West London. Add to this situation... a fawning HMG... Colonel Gaddafi’s controversial Muslim clerics head for Midlands Sep 6 2009 by Ben Goldby,...
Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
From Sunday Mercury A group of controversial Muslim clerics funded by Colonel Gaddafi are set to make appearances at three Midland Mosques. Eleven preachers sponsored by the World Islamic Call Society (Wics), which was founded, led and paid for by the Libyan leader, will be holding events in Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham during Ramadan. The speeches come just [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
The volunteers gathered inside Havana lose their shit as the first results come in. McGinn arrives at Havana to a (small) crowd of volunteers, friends, and Mercury Group employees (his pr company) waiting outside for him. He says a few words to the crowd. A lady with a microphone with KIRO's logo on it asks him some questions. Contrary to an earlier report, there isn't a TV camera in evidence anywhere—you...
WebMetricsGuru (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
I was invited by Laurel Touby who started MediaBistro to the MediaBistro Career Circus this afternoon and covered a few of the sessions, inclusing this one on Optimizing Your Job Search. Optimize Your Job Search Alan Cohen President, Acts Of Balance Coaching Tonia Mattu Career Coach and Consultant, The Mercury Group LLC Learn practical tools and tips that will help you optimize [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/04/2009
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of First Mercury Group (First Mercury) (Chicago, IL) and
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 27/01/2009
Mercury Group, a executive search, training, and career transition firm, today announced that Kate Rodler will be joining as a partner, effective immediately. Per the release: Rodler has over 20 years of experience in the publishing and advertising sector and has worked with many of the world's leading firms. Rodler will be based in San Francisco and will be responsible for recruitment initiatives...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
Thanks to this week's sponsors: Chevy Fuel Solutions, Cingular, Energizer, Games for Windows, Livescribe, Mercury Group, Nethawk, Nokia, Pernod, Sharp, Sonos, Zune. To become an advertiser, click...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
Could the Russian luxury market actually be slowing down? The managing director of Mercury, the country's biggest luxury goods group has said that sales have fallen at the popular TsUM shopping center. While most wealthy people are continuing to buy, there has been a slight slowdown and a possibility that the global gloom has finally seeped through to Russia. Mercury's stores sell many of the world's...
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