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...]
Unions put pressure on Inslee for raises in secret negotiations
Anyone driving by the state capitol campus this week has seen the signs on the main lawn announcing a “rally for raises” for state employees. Unfortunately that is about all that anyone other than the … [Read more...]
Sound Transit hit with another PDC complaint
Just when the Sound Transit bureaucrats thought an apology would excuse them for violating public disclosure rules by giving personal email addresses to the campaign pushing their $54 billion dollar … [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...]
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...]
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...]
Another week, another Sound Transit scandal
The bureaucrats running Sound Transit are finding out that when you demand the biggest tax increase in state history – some $54 billion dollars – that some people might ask what you’ve been doing with … [Read more...]
It’s almost Labor Day, so (illegal) teacher strikes are in the air
It’s hard to say that fall is in the air on a 90 degree day, so instead we can point to Labor Day being around the corner as a traditional time for the labor bosses at the Washington Education … [Read more...]
More fallout from Inslee debate – will he ever have an education plan?
Jay Inslee loves to send out email to his supporters asking for money, claiming that he is really, truly committed to our public schools. Unfortunately for our “green” governor, he was in a debate … [Read more...]
Inslee’s begging for bucks falls short
Evidently it wasn’t just the media and those watching who were underwhelmed by Jay Inslee’s debate performance against Bill Bryant this week. The “green” governor’s own campaign donors don’t appear to … [Read more...]
Surprise – Seattle officials can’t budget
Every once in a while there is a news story so obvious, that even elected officials can’t avoid admitting the truth. The Seattle blog Crosscut carried such a story today on how it seems that every big … [Read more...]