Former State Representative Tim Probst is having a hard time returning to the legislature. First, he lost a race to move up to the Senate in 2012. Fortunately his Democrat friends found him a cushy, … [Read more...]
For Hire: Seattle City Council laws
The uniformity of thought on the Seattle City Council is a regular topic on Shift, and is certainly not news to anyone paying attention. However, turns out it was news to the Seattle Times' Danny … [Read more...]
The Inslee calendar – ‘keeping busy’ edition
Some of us at Shift have been channeling our inner Inslee the past few days – sleeping in, not working too hard, making fundraising calls, doodling, etc. – and have fallen behind in our real work. … [Read more...]
Sound Transit puts the ‘ST’ in ‘sizeable tax’ increases
It’s well-know that Sound Transit (ST) has an insatiable desire for more of your tax dollars, as the bureaucrats running the show try to figure out how to get more money for more trains and tunnels … [Read more...]
Government at work – just a couple years late
Democrats like Jay Inslee enjoy talking about any successes in state government, even ideas they opposed, to justify their re-election campaigns. Indeed, just consider the recent gubernatorial debate, … [Read more...]
A (late) Friday Funny: Jay’s calendar
After taking much of the month of August off, Jay Inslee has returned to work with a vengeance in September, putting in back-to-back weeks of, get this, double-digit hours of governing! That’s … [Read more...]
Union fears spotlight, so tries intimidation
Open government seems to be a Washington State value, at least since the Public Disclosure Commission was created by voter initiative in 1972. Allowing the public to know what government officials are … [Read more...]
Another suburb wonders about Sound Transit priorities
The latest Sound Transit boondoggle has been taking some hits from folks outside of Seattle recently – and even from a powerful State Senator from inside Seattle – and the latest question of the … [Read more...]
Steyer not dropping millions in WA – yet
California billionaire has been a frequent visitor – or at least his many has – in Washington State policies in recent years. The retired hedge fund manager – who made much of his cash of foreign … [Read more...]
Sound Transit caught breaking finance laws – punishment TBD
The bureaucrats at Sound Transit knew they could be in trouble when they got caught giving the personal email addresses of their customers to the campaign trying to raise taxes to expand their light … [Read more...]
Seattle Council wastes taxpayers’ green to appear green
The Seattle City Council will never be mistaken for a body that understands economics. From its embrace of the job-killing $15 minimum wage to its pending vote to tell employers who they can hire and … [Read more...]
Friday Funny – Inslee panics! Or not!
One of the reasons that this year’s gubernatorial race has been so low-key is that the mainstream media doesn’t spend much time looking beyond Jay Inslee’s press releases, to actually let voters know … [Read more...]