The round-up of news clips from August 24, 2010.

On Monday, Seattle City Council members unveiled a timeline to bring publicly financed elections to the city.

Wall Street Watch released a new report on Wednesday detailing how an influx of industry dollars paved the way for the present financial crisis.

A Judicial Public Financing bill was introduced in the Washington state legislature on Monday.

Scuffles over the involvement of independent groups and their millions of dollars in ad spending sparked the discussion over moving to public financing of elections for judicial races in Washington last year.  Will similar concerns about independent expenditures in this year's high-profile gubernatorial match-up in the state move the discussion forward?

Now that it looks very likely that Washington Governor Christine Gregoire will sign the Local Choice/Local Option bill into law and allow municipalities to pursue public financing options for their elections, members of the Seattle City Council are weighing a proposal to create a Clean Elections public financing program to cover their elections.