You have to give the bike-share zealots who love Pronto this much – they refuse to take no for an answer. Sort of like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Especially when they aren’t spending their … [Read more...]
Lands Commissioner race heats up – Franz tries to cover up her litigation-happy past
Normally the race for Commissioner for Public Lands is a low-key one, not really worthy of the office that controls hundreds of millions of dollars of money for public schools. This year has not … [Read more...]
(McDermott) Hunger Games – Part XXI
The race to succeed Jim McDermott in Congress has been much more of a snoozer than people likely would have thought when the Congressman-for-Life announced his retirement last year. Most observers … [Read more...]
The Left stays on the attack – against the carbon tax
National pundits just can’t get enough about the intramural fight between the Left and far-Left over Initiative 732, the carbon tax on the ballot next month. The latest to weigh in is Vox, which … [Read more...]
Will Pronto finally meet its deserved fate?
There was a birthday party last week and if you live in the city of Seattle, you might feel bad if you weren’t invited. That’s because you had already paid for it. The birthday in question … [Read more...]
Debates over – so Inslee’s friends go on attack
The Washington governor’s race has been a low-key affair, especially when compared to the presidential contest. Donors on both sides still seem worn out from the 2012 race, when over $50 million was … [Read more...]
Former Chief Justice says income tax unconstitutional – but that won’t stop the liberals!
Shift has repeatedly pointed out (here and here) that the City of Olympia’s income tax initiative this fall is primarily a liberal test case for overturning the state’s 80-year-old ban on a state … [Read more...]
An omen, perhaps?
Perhaps whoever is in charge of the weather has finally grown weary of the Washington State Labor Council rounding up people from outside a legislative district, and then sending them out to private … [Read more...]
Seattle priorities: junkies, not local businesses
The misplaced priorities of the Seattle City Council have been well documented on Shift, from removing toys from public parks instead of illegal campers on public property, to investing in failed bike … [Read more...]
Sawant fighting cops, again
Seattle’s own Socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant has made quite a name for herself in her first couple years on the council – as a revolutionary who wants Boeing to produce buses, as an … [Read more...]
California enviros love ST3 – and raising WA taxes
It was strange to see the contrast in the Seattle Times over the weekend in dueling op-eds over Regional Proposition 1 – the ballot measure to raise $54 billion in taxes in King, Pierce and Snohomish … [Read more...]
Whacky Dems don’t support free trade – or Dems who do
The Obama administration has been pushing the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) all year, in hopes of securing a free trade legacy for the outgoing president. Unfortunately for him – and those who … [Read more...]