The state’s largest psychiatric hospital has been much in the news this year for a wide variety of challenges, but evidently didn’t see the need to highlight that it “quietly withdrew from a national … [Read more...]
Setbacks keep coming for Sound Transit’s bloated tax package
Yet another blow to Sound Transit’s scheme for fleecing taxpayers out of $54 billion hit the troubled agency today, with the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce voting to oppose voting to oppose the … [Read more...]
Leading Dem thinks party’s holy grail – socialized medicine – is “inevitable”
Just as a state income tax is the holy grail for Washington State Democrats, a guiding principle according to their platform, so too is government-run healthcare – socialized medicine – for national … [Read more...]
Seattle falling off its bike (share) again
The Seattle City Council just keeps making headlines with its “strategy” for getting people out of their cars and on to city-owned (and then-rented) bikes. And the wasteful antics all come at taxpayer … [Read more...]
Liberals want your tax dollars – for their campaigns
It is saying something when one of the expensive liberal initiatives on this fall’s ballot is such bad public policy that it stands above the others in earning public scorn. And among the … [Read more...]
Vancouver school district stands up for its students, goes to court to stop strike
It has long been known by both school districts and union officials that teacher strikes are illegal. As Smarter Government Washington pointed out last year around this time, then-Attorney General Rob … [Read more...]
Liberal big money corrupts even Bernie Sanders, evidently
It was an outcome you wouldn’t have expected from the Bernie Sanders revolution. As reported by Fox News – “Even before Bernie Sanders could roll out a new organization to fund progressive candidates … [Read more...]
Here’s Jay’s calendar – an early Friday Funny, on a Blue Thursday
The summer doldrums have not been getting Jay Inslee down, as our “green” governor revs up his re-election campaign. In the most recent look at his campaign calendar, we watch Jay jetting off to Aspen … [Read more...]
Clinton’s big-money hypocrisy outed by far-Left group
Hillary Clinton’s campaign may be wondering, “with friends like these, who needs enemies”, after the ultra-liberal Center for Public Integrity published a lengthy piece detailing how “Liberal … [Read more...]
Sound Transit campaign raking in the big bucks – from those who benefit from your tax dollars
It is often typical for campaigns to talk about the strength of their grassroots efforts and sometimes it’s even true – just think about Bernie Sanders. More typical is the politician who makes it … [Read more...]
Questions finally being asked about ST3 – so the attack dogs come out
State Senator Reuven Carlyle is a proud liberal. He’s also a thoughtful one, and his tendency to share his thinking online can make him a target when he takes on liberal orthodoxy. The fallout … [Read more...]
Carbon tax supporters point to B.C. success – but folks in B.C. don’t
The green activists behind Initiative 732 – Washington State’s carbon tax push – like to point out that the concept has worked in British Columbia, even if it’s never been tried in the United States. … [Read more...]