Observers have often wondered just how far to left the leaders of local unions lean, given their occasional dalliances with the local business community on issues like transportation which sometime … [Read more...]
Possible Dem leader says Boeing is a losing investment
I kept waiting over the weekend for the outpouring of Democrats going public to tell former State Rep. Brendan Williams how far out in left field he was for suggesting in a Seattle Times op-ed last … [Read more...]
Liberal “think tank” wants gov to grab more of your money
File this one under, to paraphrase The Gipper, “there they go again.” It seems that anything provides a reason for the far left in Seattle to declare it’s time to raise taxes. This time it was the … [Read more...]
Enviros use fake poll to undermine congestion relief
That screeching you hear coming from Seattle is the sound of literally dozens of extreme environmental activists protesting the transportation plan that works. The nutty enviro argument against a … [Read more...]
Is Sound Transit lying about soliciting public comment?
Sound Transit is in the process of extending its Link Light Rail, which currently runs from SeaTac Airport to downtown Seattle, both northward and southward. While construction is only under way as … [Read more...]
Environmentalists prefer transportation funding go to bike lanes
Many Seattle-centric environmental activists are all atwitter over the recent transportation proposal by the Senate Majority Caucus. Helping lead the charge against a transportation funding package … [Read more...]
Average cost of Sounder North? $37.84 per boarding
I recently shared the news that Sound Transit is removing some of the train cars from its Sounder North commuter rail service due to low ridership. For a variety of reasons, transit riders are … [Read more...]
Progressively more corrupt
I took the weekend to see how much outrage would come from last Friday's report in The Times about a smelly deal between outgoing Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and some of his labor supporters to try to … [Read more...]
Did anyone notice the governor was missing?
Not that many people may have noticed, but the state’s top elected leader evidently decided that the best way to convince Boeing to build the 777X in our state was to … leave the state. And then to … [Read more...]
Hypocrisy: Democrats and their hidden million-dollar donors
A story that has remained unwritten for years in Washington State may finally be about to be told, now that the national press is starting to pay attention. In the last two weeks, both Politico and … [Read more...]
Job Opening: Sound Transit needs communications help
Looking for a job? Would you like to make the more than the Governor, but without all of that attention and scrutiny? Sound Transit is hiring an “Executive Director, Communications and External … [Read more...]
Current state of transit planning: not good
A recent Letter to the Editor in The News Tribune does a great job exemplifying the current state of transit planning (spoiler: it isn’t good). The writer, a Steilacoom resident, first laments that … [Read more...]