Brandi Kruse has broken the story that Governor Inslee is now offering government union employees $1,000 if they accept his COVID-19 booster shot.  After the governor’s original vaccine mandate last year left several Washington State government departments short staffed (especially at the Washington State Department of Transportation, which resulted in closed mountain passes last winter and continued cancelled sailings and disruptions in the Washington Ferry system), Inslee chose not to repeat his mistake and this time opted for an incentive offer to encourage state workers to get the booster shot he requires for employment with your tax dollars.  At his press conference last week, Governor Inslee said he was unaware of the specifics of the incentive offer even though his union negotiators were offering $1,000 to multiple union groups.  Kruse summed up the situation by stating on her [un]Divided podcast, “So now it seems the state has resorted to, with taxpayer funds, it appears, to bribing state employees to get boosted for COVID-19.” (Brandi Kruse Twitter and Shift Article)

A Lewis County Superior Court judge will listen to legal arguments tomorrow morning on whether one of the many anti-police measures passed by the Democrats in 2021 is constitutional. The issue in question was contained in HB 1054 (yes, the same poorly developed bill which prohibits police from pursuing suspected criminals) which stripped police officers of the authority to use tear gas.  The Democrats legislators believe that the authority to make this decision should not rest with police on the scene, but with the highest political figure in the local jurisdiction (county executive, county council president, mayor, or city council president).  Lewis County and six other counties filed the lawsuit after the law was enacted in the summer of 2021.  (Centralia Chronical and Washington Legislature Bill Summary)

Seattle ranks second to only Washington, D.C. for having the highest percentage of workers in a major U.S. city who primarily work from home.  A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that 47% of all workers who reside in Seattle conduct their work duties in their residences. Washington, D.C. is just above Seattle with 48% and San Francisco is just behind at 46%. All other major cities were below 40%. While the national capital’s large percentage can be attributed to its huge number of federal government employees, Seattle and San Francisco’s figures are likely related to both having a high percentage of hi-tech workers and downtown employers concerned about the safety of their workers due to liberal crime, drug, and homeless policies. (Seattle Times)

Speaking of the “other Washington,” a slightly embarrassing story has emerged after the newly renamed NFL Washington Commanders played their first home game last Sunday.  The team is now selling new merchandise to go along with its new name and quality control does not appear to be a priority. One of their new coffee mugs contains the team’s “W” logo superimposed on the background of a map of Washington State.  Oops!  While this might not be as bad as several of the football decisions made by longtime owner Daniel Snyder, it is funny to many of us here in the “real Washington.” (Seattle Times and Sporting News)

A small Vancouver bed & breakfast, which a senior couple spent eight years remodeling to provide them with retirement income, is concerned about the possibility of the city placing a homeless shelter in an empty lot across the street. The city is considering several locations for a planned third homeless shelter, but the residents and neighbors around one possible location at West Evergreen Boulevard and Daniels Street are already expressing their fears about it being placed near them. The owners of the B&B believe it could be “intolerable” if the lot was used by a shelter and that she and her husband are very emotional about the possibility of having to sell their home/business if this occurs. (Vancouver Columbian)

A Lyft Driver and the father of six children was killed on Sunday night in downtown Seattle and is sadly one of the latest victims as violent crime rates continue to rise due to the failed liberal public safety policies of the Seattle City Council.  Mohamed Kediye was working to help his two eldest children afford a car before they headed off to college.  He was shot as he dropped off a rider near the Amazon Spheres in the Belltown neighborhood. (MyNorthwest)

A convicted bank robber sentenced to a little over three-and-a-half years in prison in July 2021, was able to escape from his work release program just one year later and is now the suspect in a rape case that occurred in Seattle last July.  The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) said that, due to good behavior, convicted bank robber Jordan Alexander was scheduled for release from prison in October of 2022 (thus serving just 16 of the 43 months he was originally sentenced to serve). The DOC says inmates with less than 12 months remaining on their sentence are eligible for work release. This is how someone in Washington State can be the prime suspect of another felony just one year after being sent to prison for three-and-a-half years. (Q13 FOX News)

KXLY aired an explosive report describing the unsafe conditions at Spokane’s “Camp Hope” and that residents are told by camp organizers that they must remain in the dangerous environment in order to be eligible for future public housing. One of the residents depicted the encampment “Lord of the Flies on drugs,” as she recounted the violence which occurs on a regular basis.  She said that women are raped, others are beaten with hammers, and one young resident was branded with a hot section of rebar in a dispute over $36. Residents say they report the crimes to the staff from Jewels Helping Hand, the non-profit group paid to oversee the encampment (and the source of many previous controversies) but “Jewels doesn’t care” and nothing is done.

When asked why people don’t leave this unsafe situation, a resident said that Jewels informs them that if they leave they will no longer be eligible for a spot in a publicly financed “tiny home village.” Yet when the reporter asked Jewels when this tiny home village would be available for people to move in, Jewels’ officials said, “No comment.”

The large encampment of 650 residents has been allowed to grow on Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) property near I-90.  Recently Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward sent WSDOT a letter asserting that the state must remove the encampment by the middle of October, or the city will be forced to take the state to court.  Thus far the only response from the Inslee Administration has been a short letter from the WSDOT secretary saying they will send a response later. (KXLY, Wikipedia, Shift, and KHQ)

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