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Some background on Hirst Nothing has highlighted the urban-rural divide in Washington recently quite like the issue known as Hirst. What sounds like a boring battle of bureaucratese has actually … [Read more...]

  Look, nobody is going to accuse Gov. Jay Inslee of being the hardest-working man around. His frequent late arrivals to the office and large blocks of “workout time” on his calendar attest to … [Read more...]

For the last five years, Washington State Democrats had one clear goal in mind: Use the McCleary education funding case as an excuse to pass new types of taxes. A state income tax, a capital gains … [Read more...]

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-WA, has spent her rather long in the tooth public service career accomplishing nothing, really. She gains liberal political favor by voting in whatever way the … [Read more...]

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” the old saying goes. It seems kind of obvious, but it bears repeating…a lot. We can’t help ourselves – we’re suckers for the idea of “free.” No place in … [Read more...]

Sometimes a word or a phrase rockets into the lexicon. One week you’ve never heard of it, the next you can’t miss it. That’s true of “nothing-burger,” which is popping up all over lately. When … [Read more...]

Here at Shift, we love to expose the cozy deals in Olympia and highlight the super-lefty extremists – luckily (?) for us, Seattle has an inexhaustible supply. But the point is, you expect those types … [Read more...]

What were you expecting, unswerving fealty to the truth? If you know the state teachers union, the Washington Education Association, you know better than that. Already one of Olympia’s biggest … [Read more...]

Somebody has to be the Mayor of Seattle. We don’t actually know that to be true, but it sounds right. If there was no mayor, would anyone notice? It reminds us of the meme from last year’s … [Read more...]