Please forgive the SECB for this brief interlude into local politics:

As the first returns come in, here’s what the local races look like.

Initiative 91, which bans city subsidies for sports teams like the Sonics, is winning overwhelmingly, 76 to 24 percent.

Seattle’s Ref. 1, the four-foot rule for strip clubs, is failing 44 to 56. (A no vote means no new restrictions on strip clubs in Seattle.)

Seattle’s Prop. 1, the mayor’s tax for streets and bridges, is failing by a narrow margin, 49 to 51.

King County Prop. 2, County Executive Ron Sims’s sales tax increase for buses, is winning 54 to 46 percent.

Initiative 920, the estate tax repeal, is losing, 59 to 40 percent.

Initiative 933, the “takings” initiative that would require state and local governments to pay property owners to follow land-use rules or waive the rules, is losing, 45 to 55 percent.

Initiative 937, the clean-energy initiative, is winning narrowly, 51 to 49 percent.

And the Vashon Island PUD, which a guy just asked me about somewhat frantically, is losing, 67 to 33 percent.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.