The bureaucrats at Sound Transit have learned from past failures (see 1995, 2007) not to run a huge tax increase initiative when voters can really focus on it. Instead, always go on the ballot in a … [Read more...]
Shift on the radio!
Every day this week KVI 570 AM host John Carlson will be featuring Shift’s Randy Pepple for analysis of initiatives on this fall’s ballot. The interviews will air at 6:35 am, and be repeated during … [Read more...]
Seattle tax dollars at work – $74 million spent, traffic improved by 2 seconds
Many people are justifiably skeptical about promises made by the Seattle-centric folks at Sound Transit (ST). Maybe it’s because they’ve heard ST’s promises before, and found them false. Or, maybe … [Read more...]
Inslee’s “work” schedule: Road trip edition
When you’ve looked at as many of Jay Inslee’s calendars as Shift has (examples here and here), you realize that the time he spends in the office is almost as rare as the time he actually spends … [Read more...]
Wikigate: Will Clinton’s embarrassing emails ever end?
The national press seems to be quite enamored with the ongoing train wreck that is the Donald Trump campaign, and it certainly is news when embarrassing private statements from a major presidential … [Read more...]
Breaking the law, lying to law enforcement – just government work
Evidently ruining a river and then trying to cover it up by lying to investigators is OK by the Obama Administration – as long as you didn’t really mean to. That’s the lesson learned from the … [Read more...]
Sound Transit priorities for tax dollars: art “to pee on”
The folks at Sound Transit sure have a strange way of showing that they understand how hard people work for their money. At least, that’s how it seems when you consider how the bureaucrats running the … [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...]
SEIU goals: “buy a caucus and get an income tax”
Now that we are in the last four weeks of the general election campaign, contribution trends are very apparent. Overwhelming evidence shows one fact very clearly – the Service Employees International … [Read more...]
Inslee agrees to keep union ‘negotiations’ secret in future
It was hard to track the “negotiations” this summer between Jay Inslee and his million-dollar donors at the state employee unions, which is just how the union bosses (and the governor) wanted it to … [Read more...]
Inslee gets back to normal schedule – little work, full pay
A week after Jay Inslee almost put in a full 40-hour work week on governing, he reverted to form last week – slipping into official activities for just 10-and-a-half hours. And eight of those hours … [Read more...]
Sound Transit finally admits truth – it’s the cars, stupid!
Sound Transit has made a habit over the last 20 years of making up stories to try and pry more tax dollars out of the wallets of people living in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. As Shift has … [Read more...]