Down to two for king of King
A 16-member panel of movers and shakers, assisted by separately elected officials and a laundry list of selection criteria, have come up with two recommended finalists to be the interim King County Executive. They are former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer and Kurt Triplett, the acting interim Executive and the immediate past chief of staff to the departed Executive Ron Sims. Yup, that’s a whole lot of work for a seat-filler job for a half-year until the voters elect a successor to Sims,…