Sound Transit has a rich of history of using its public tax dollars in strange ways – from throwing million-dollar parties, to giving away private email addresses to political allies, to conducting … [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...]
Traffic congestion’s bad – but Inslee doesn’t want to talk about it
Anyone who has tried to drive around the Puget Sound area understands that traffic congestion has gotten worse in recent years. Perhaps that is why Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant has … [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...]
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...]
PDC lets Sound Transit off the hook: “mistakes were made”
The Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) is often put in a difficult position, charged with determining violations of sometimes-arcane (if not downright confusing) elections law, occasionally in a short … [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...]
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...]
Times dampens spirit of Sound Transit cheerleaders
The coordinated campaign – from elected officials like King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, to mega-donors who will benefit from construction projects, to the usual … [Read more...]
A tale of two ST3 appeals
Tuesday night featured two Sound Transit-related events, and the contrast between the two shows how supporters of a massive, expensive light rail expansion think they need to appeal to voters in … [Read more...]
Three truths you won’t hear from Sound Transit’s PR machine
There is one sure-fire way to tell that we have passed Labor Day, and that campaign season is in full swing – elected officials and bureaucrats not on the ballot start showing up with editorials … [Read more...]
Sound Transit investigations pick up speed
Labor Day is generally seen as the starting point for people to start paying attention to what’s on our state’s November general election ballot - but you wouldn’t know that from the intense coverage … [Read more...]