While Governor Jay Inslee has been spending his time crying wolf over our budget shortfalls, the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council has released a report that increases revenue projections by $406 … [Read more...]
Federal judge intervenes with Hillary Clinton email scandal
A federal judge has intervened, reopening an open-records case surrounding Hillary Clinton and the emails she kept on a private server during her time as Secretary of State. President of Judicial … [Read more...]
Seattle liberals think paying $37 to give low-income drivers $20 is a good deal
Yep - you read that correctly. "To give low-income drivers $20 rebates on their car-tab fees, Seattle's city government intends to spend as much as $17 in overhead costs this summer". In another … [Read more...]
Democrats admit that a socialist agenda is their agenda
Leave it to far-left freshman State Senator Pramila Jayapal (D-37, Southeast Seattle) to speak truth to power in her party – that “you'd be hard pressed to find significant differences between her … [Read more...]
15 Now Activists: Dramatic or Just Delusional?
15 Now Tacoma activist Alan Stancliff penned an op-ed for the Tacoma News Tribune - reminding us that liberal lines of reasoning are never logical. Stancliff argues that the $15 minimum wage … [Read more...]
Gingrich slams de Blasio for trying to rip off his ‘1994 Contract with America’
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has created a 13-point plan full of "robust progressive policies" in what he is trying to champion as a model of the 1994 Contract with America. Well - former House … [Read more...]
Seattle City Council: We Don’t Need Jobs Here
The latest example of the Seattle City Council living in a fantasy world where economics and not wasting taxpayer money are not part of this equation came from Councilman Mike O'Brien last week, as he … [Read more...]
Inslee conspiring with union to get around the law
Jay Inslee is working with SEIU 775 "in order to maintain the unions' ability to automatically deduct dues from certain union-represented workers", according to records uncovered by the Freedom … [Read more...]
Seattle officials trumpeting another vote to raise Metro taxes
Undaunted by their failure to jack up car tab fees across King County earlier this year, big government advocates have persuaded Mayor Ed Murray and Seattle officials to place Proposition 1 on the … [Read more...]
Democrats stick city of Seattle with fundraising bill
Democrats usually try to keep the public from seeing how little regard they have for spending taxpayer money, but the truth slipped out last week when Seattle officials decided that city taxpayers … [Read more...]
Democrat Lt. Guv admits using office for family benefit
A lengthy ethics investigation – which appears to have been punted past the last election to avoid embarrassing Democrat Lt. Governor Brad Owen – has finally ended, with Owen being fined $15,000 for … [Read more...]
Turns out, Metro was wrong, more $$ available for buses
King County Metro executives formulated a regressive tax plan two years ago that would garner them enormous tax revenues. Metro then cried wolf earlier this year, saying bus routes would be shut down … [Read more...]