On a Blue Monday after the dismal Seahawks’ game yesterday, Shift takes a look at another dismal prospect – the beginning of an advertising onslaught from the zealots at Sound Transit, sure to be singing the praises of the biggest tax increase in state history. We highlight the one voice – the Seattle Times – that is speaking up against the deafening liberal chorus, and can only hope that media investigations will continue into the false claims that are certain to be part of the campaign’s advertising blitz.
And speaking of false claims, we also shine a light on Seattle’s failed bike-share program. Now that it’s owned by city government, it is evidently a good time to admit that the company behind the little-used green bikes is basically worthless, and the city will have to start over – this time with electric bikes.
Shift also takes its regular look at Jay Inslee’s calendar, and the many days off he takes while enjoying a pay increase to more than $173,000. It’s good “work” if you can get it, sort of like the “work” being done by Inslee’s crack environmental review squad, which is in year four of its analysis of the Millennium terminal project in Longview. Even labor unions that have long stood with Democrats, and put in big money to elect Inslee, are starting to complain about the “arbitrary” regulatory process that hinders job creation in our state.
Go Mariners!