Nickels also has a child with Cunningham, Grace Nickels born in 2001.

Former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels has called Seattle " a city of neighborhoods.

The multiple Black Flag albums, along with the double album releases Zen Arcade and Double Nickels on the Dime by Hüsker Dü and the Minutemen, respectively, stretched the label's resources.

During the Phoney War, the RAF carried out small bombing raids and a large number of propaganda leaflet raids ( codenamed " Nickels ") and the Royal Navy imposed a coastal blockade on Germany.

Punk band Minutemen have a song on their 1984 Double Nickels on the Dime album entitled " 16 June ".

The executive board, elected by faction members on April 3, 1984, consists of Annemarie Borgmann, Waltraud Schoppe, Antje Vollmer, Christa Nickels, Heidemarie Dann and Erika Hickel.

Their best known album was Double Nickels on the Dime.

* C-Span article by Ilona Nickels on Blue Dogs

Nickels is a member of the Washington State Democratic Party and served as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors, but left that post on the day he left office as Seattle mayor.

Nickels served on the board of directors of Sound Transit.

A new plan was not developed, and on September 16, 2005, Nickels withdrew city support for the project.

Gregoire ( center ), stands with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels ( left ) and US Senator for Illinois Barack Obama ( right ) at a rally for Obama's presidential campaign at Key Arena on February 8, 2008.

Drago announced on May 26, 2009 that she was running for Mayor of Seattle, seeking to unseat two-term Mayor Greg Nickels.

** Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

** Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime

The song, which is on the album Double Nickels on the Dime, details the band's working class origins and populist sentiments: " Punk rock changed our lives.

He recorded a live radio program at WKCR-FM, Columbia University, on July 16, 1972, which was released as an album, Livin ' High Off Nickels & Dimes, on the short-lived Oblivion Records in New York.

Double Nickels on the Dime is the third studio album by American punk trio Minutemen, released on the Californian independent record label SST Records in 1984.

A double album containing 45 songs, Double Nickels on the Dime combines elements of punk rock, funk, country, spoken word and jazz, and references a variety of themes, from the Vietnam War and racism in America, to working class experience and linguistics.

Several songs on Double Nickels on the Dime were outsourced to or inspired by contemporaries, such as Black Flag's Henry Rollins and Jack Brewer of Saccharine Trust.

November 28, 2006, SIFF and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that SIFF will soon have a home and a year-round screening facility in what has been the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall of McCaw Hall, the same building at Seattle Center that houses the Seattle Opera.

Controversy over the city's response to the protests resulted in the resignation of the police chief of Seattle, Norm Stamper, and arguably played a role in Schell's loss to Greg Nickels in the 2001 mayoral primary election.

# Seattle mayor Greg Nickels founded the United States Conference of Mayors ' Climate Agreement in 2005.

* Greg Nickels, former mayor of Seattle

" Greg " Nickels ( born August 7, 1955 ) was the 51st mayor of Seattle, Washington.

In August 2009, Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor, failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election, and losing his bid for a third term as mayor.

Nickels was legislative assistant to Seattle City Council member and future mayor Norm Rice from 1979 to 1987.

Nickels has had several notable events during his tenure as mayor of Seattle.

Nickels ' popularity began to decline in July 2008, when the Seattle SuperSonics NBA franchise relocated to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after a lawsuit against the team's ownership group was settled out of court – an outcome in which Nickels ' administration, as well as Washington State lawmakers were faulted by many Seattle sports fans for not doing enough to keep the team in Seattle.

Due to disapproval of Nickels ' handling of illegal tent cities in Seattle, a tent city community in the Seattle area is known colloquially as " Nickelsville ".

In Nickels ' concession defeat, he thanked Seattle voters and noted, " Twice they gave me the honor of doing this.

Nickels left Seattle to pursue a teaching position at Harvard University.

In November, 2006, the Office of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced a preliminary agreement between the City of Seattle and BNSF Railway to purchase the station for $ 1.

In 2005, Nickels announced an “ Environmental Action Agenda ” with the goal of protecting air quality and public health.

In December 2008, Nickels was criticized after an unusual snowstorm blanketed the city with the greatest snowfalls it had seen since 1996.

Nickels is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of " making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets.

Former drummer Riley was invited to rejoin the group for the subsequent tour however both Lewis and Cripps departed the group with singer Chris Van Dahl replacing Lewis and Johnny Crypt becoming the new bassist, replacing Nickels.

Guns reunited with Phil Lewis, Mick Cripps and Kelly Nickels returning to the group in the fall, touring in support of the compilation album.

The then-Mayor Greg Nickels gave the board an ultimatum to create a new plan or lose city support for the project.

After a week of frantic effort hiring staff, borrowing a tin shed at the RAAF base at Laverton because Essendon Airport had been turned into mud by heavy rain, creating operations manuals, passenger manifests, tickets, and load sheets — even making passenger steps and baggage carts because there was no time to buy them in the ordinary way — Captains Hepburn and Nickels took off from Laverton at 5: 45 am bound for Sydney.

Three years passed before Nickels for Your Nightmares was released, in which time Carr and Harrison became fathers and Dillon recovered from a drug addiction.