According to the Seattle Times, everyone’s favorite beleaguered transit project (hint: not the viaduct!) will get a shiny new finance plan when the governing board of the Seattle Monorail Project meets tonight. [#] The updated cost, revenue, and funding options promise to be less catastrophically expensive, shorter-term, and more realistic than the funding plan that caused everyone and his cousin to flip out this summer. Apparently, these yet-undisclosed revisions are an attempt to avoid bringing the issue to the voters again this fall.

Meanwhile, the monorail is shaping up to be the campaign issue of the year for the city council elections. [seattletimes] Ah, remember the halcyon days of spring when it seemed like it would be the waterfront streetcar? While that issue withers on the vine of public interest, candidates are staking out places along the monorail love-hate continuum to bolster enthusiasm for their campaigns.

To hear about why you should care about city politics, head out to the Broadway Performance Hall tonight at 6:30 for the Stranger’s “Great City Council Debate” [slog]. Even if you don’t find discussion of local politics completely thrilling, it’s a good chance to see what your representatives and favorite Stranger political writers actually look like live an in person. Sure, you could go to a city council meeting, but doesn’t this sound like more fun?