Northshore School District Board Member Jacqueline McGourty, who is currently up for re-election, apparently doesn’t believe her children should go to school in a district that elected her.  Instead McGourty (whose extreme partisanship is shown by her financial support from the Washington Education Association and Democrat Party organizations) sends her kids to the exclusive Bush School in Seattle, where annual tuition is $40,000.  Just another example of liberal privilege.  North King County voters will decide in few weeks whether they want this type of hypocrisy to continue on their school board.  (Click to read full Shift article)

Anyone who attended Seahawks’ game on Sunday, or viewed the crowd shots on TV, witnessed for themselves that fans were overwhelmingly refusing to adhere to Governor Inslee and King County Health Department’s mask mandate.  The fans clearly showed their lack of respect for the governor’s “emergency” edicts, with KIRO Host Dori Monson estimating that 90% of the crowd was not wearing a mask. Will Governor Jay Inslee and the state go after the Seahawks or the Washington State Public Stadium Authority (which operates Lumen Field) in the same manner the state went after small businesses which failed to adhere to previous arbitrary orders by the governor?  Likely not, since the governor has repeatedly given more leeway to those in ultra-liberal King County. (MyNorthwest, Dori Monson Twitter, and Shift)

The City of Winlock joined its Lewis County neighbor Mossyrock in passing a resolution stating it would not follow “any and all illegal and or unconstitutional mandates, orders or requirements” from Governor Inslee.  The Winlock resolution goes further than Mossyrock by stating that Governor Inslee has personality disorders, including an “inflated sense of self-importance, expecting special treatment, exaggerating achievements, reacting negatively to criticism” and that he requires a “professional medical intervention”.  (Centralia Chronicle)

A year-old Twitter post from radical Seattle City Attorney candidate Nicole Thomas-Kennedy resurfaced this weekend, as her opinions might matter to voters, given her opinions are that “cops are serial killers” and “a big chunk” of the public “are serial killer apologists.”  In nearly every other community in the country, a candidate for the elected office responsible for prosecuting criminals would actually believe in prosecuting criminals. A person like Thomas-Kennedy, who calls herself an “abolitionist” when it comes to prosecuting misdemeanor crime and who publicized such irresponsible and bigoted views about police would not be considered a serious candidate.  Yet, in the bizzarro world of Seattle politics, this candidate currently has a 50-50 chance of winning this November. (Nicole Thomas-Kennedy Twitter)

In an all-too-often repeated story, a resident of the Pioneer Square neighborhood was viciously attacked as he was walking his dogs.  The victim suffered severe knife wounds to his face, and he stated this attack was indicative of Seattle’s growing crime problem, which has reached the crisis stage with increased murders and assaults.  Alex Drummond was critical of lame-duck Mayor Jenny Durkan’s apparent focus on free-music events, instead of actual public safety measures, as the preferred method for bringing people back to downtown Seattle. “It’s no good setting up like music events and trying to create a kids park and making it a fun environment because it’s not a fun environment. It’s a dangerous and scary environment for the residents that live here.”

Meanwhile, the Seattle councilmember who represents Pioneer Square (along with the Downtown, Queen Anne, and Magnolia neighborhoods) once again demonstrated he does not have a clue as to how to solve the skyrocketing crime problem in Seattle.  Councilmember Andrew Lewis resorted to the well-used liberal playbook by stating that to solve the increasing crime problem the city needs even more money.  Remember Councilmember Lewis was elected in 2019, on a platform of increasing funding for police.  Yet when liberal activists rioted last summer, Lewis caved in to the violence, broke his campaign promise, and repeatedly voted to defund the police department – and with absolutely no other alternative measure to keep 750,000 Seattle residents safe. (Q13 News)

In yet another all-too-often seen item, the former executive editor of the Seattle Times visited his old stomping grounds and is appalled by the current condition of the once “Most Livable City in America.”  It appears that decades of single-party liberal control has resulted in an extreme lack of civility, sidewalks full of trash, and parks taken over by homeless encampments, leading David Boardman to write that his recent visit to Seattle showed him it is “truly a different place” than the one he left eight years ago.  And, falling back on his training as a liberal journalist, his only proposed solution for these failures is for the “haves” to share more with the “have-nots.”

Since Boardman now resides in Philadelphia, we can excuse him for not knowing that nearly four years ago the Puget Sound Business Journal reported that more than a billion dollars a year was being spent to help those who are homeless, and this figure continues to rapidly grow as the city, county, state, and federal governments (along with businesses, individuals, charities, and churches) continue to pour more money into the problem. Seattle’s homeless problem (as well as its crime and drug addiction problems) will only be solved with new policies, not more money simply used to increase the size and power of government. (Seattle Times and Puget Sound Business Journal)

The City of Seattle stopped the effort of Georgetown residents to rid their neighborhood of the rats that have come along with two homeless encampments. It doesn’t matter to Seattle officials that more than an estimated 600 rats currently survive on the waste from the two encampments. Those who own homes in Georgetown, a small community just North of Boeing Field, hired an exterminator to remove the rats.

However, in order to do so, the RVs and other vehicles which make up one of the encampments needed to be temporarily removed, with temporary “No parking” signs installed so the exterminators could safely perform their job.  Instead of cleaning up the area, the residents of the encampment complained to the city that this could be a trick by the homeowners to place half-ton blocks in the parking spots that prevent the RVs from returning.  The city sided with those in the encampment, and denied the exterminators the necessary permits to place temporary “no parking” signs. Thus, the rat problem continues to plague the neighborhood – and, unfortunately, City Hall. (KOMO News)

Criticism of the performance of Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is growing from parents who are upset that the district didn’t offer more slots for its remote education program and has failed to implement safer conditions in schools even as the delta variant of COVID is spreading among school children.  The district will already be losing substantial state and federal funding, as it currently has 2,000 fewer children enrolled than it had two years ago.  SPS, which is again seeking a new superintendent, is expecting even more parents to remove their students from Seattle schools in the coming weeks. (Crosscut)

The executive director of Northwest RiverPartners pointedly asks Puget Sound-area dam removal advocates why “not fix what’s going on in their own backyard” instead of focusing so much attention on disrupting the economy of the Snake River region?  Kurt Miller points out in an op-ed that if the advocates truly cared about helping Orcas, they would focus on restoring Chinook salmon populations where the whales feed in Puget Sound, instead of working to remove the Snake River dams which scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have repeatedly stated would do very little to restore Puget Sound Salmon. Miller states that many people become involved in the Snake River issue because they feel they must do something, even if it’s the wrong thing. (Post Register)

Tri-City community leaders are concerned they won’t have enough applicants to fill the 1,500 jobs Amazon is creating with two large distribution centers which will be operational in 2022.  Amazon made the announcement last week that it will be opening a pair of 1-million-square-foot facilities in the area. The online retail company has been offering $3,000 signing bonuses for those who have been hired at its new Spokane Valley warehouse. (Tri-City Herald)

Last Friday’s Newsmaker Interview was with Representative Chris Corry, a second-term legislator from Yakima.   Representative Corry is a rising star in the legislature and spars often with Puget Sound-area legislators who refuse to recognize that the laws they pass have a negative impact on those who live under different conditions in Eastern Washington or in rural communities.  In his interview, Representative Corry expresses his desire to help educate his fellow legislators on these impacts and shares his views on Governor Inslee refusing to end his one-man rule of the state, the disastrous police “reform” legislation, the poorly planned long term care payroll tax, the Democrats seeking to impose a state income tax, and how cities, including Yakima, are demonstrating that Washington State residents don’t support the Democrats’ tax plans. (Click to read full Newsmaker Interview)

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