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It’s Friday, so we must be funny, and that means talking about City of Seattle politics. In our feature today, we ask you to let us know which of the recent city policies Shift has covered tickles your funny bone the most – enjoy our survey. Many would also find humorous the fact that the … Continued

Two stories about how mis-managed Seattle is top Shift today. Both are ongoing themes, about the city’s over-regulation tendencies and its broken public schools. Uber and other ride-share companies are finding out where they are on the city council’s priority list – and it’s well below the unions who fund Democrat campaigns. And the Seattle … Continued

On this “date which will live in infamy”, Shift salutes our veterans. And gives a different kind of “salute” – of the one-fingered variety – to one of the state’s most obnoxious liberal activist groups – Fuse – for deciding that this was a day for political posturing, not remembering the sacrifices of those who … Continued

It’s said that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Here in the Puget Sound area we might add a third certainty – Sound Transit officials always want more. So, in today’s Shift, we look a few of the ways that Sound Transit is looking to make traffic congestion worse and your … Continued

There is snow on the ground (sort of) in the Puget Sound area, after about a week of our region’s weather forecasters breathlessly predicting a “snow event.” Just as predictable, from the Shift team point of view, are three stories we wrote about today: 1. Seattle Public Schools is facing a deficit, but it’s not … Continued

Some semblance of normalcy returned last week, as the Thanksgiving leftovers finally ran out. We started getting fundraising emails from Jay Inslee again, his weekly schedule continued to show a decided lack of worth ethic from the newly re-elected “green” governor, and King County (and the rest of the state) finally finished counting all the … Continued

Happy Friday – and wishing you Dawg Fans no Friday Funny business in tonight’s Pac-12 football championship game! Shift does capture a bit of humor in Jay Inslee’s weekly schedule today, noting that for a man who tries to raise money by telling people it’s time to “get to work”, that he continues not to … Continued

He’s back…and that’s never a good thing. Perhaps the only politician who takes to email as much as Donald Trump takes to twitter is Jay Inslee, in his never-ending quest to raise money. And though Shift thought that we’d get a break after the election, ‘twas not to be – check out your own in-box … Continued

Some might have thought that the election – the results of which will actually be certified in Washington State tomorrow – was a nasty fight not to be repeated any time soon, that we should celebrate having in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately for those who don’t like conflict, “elections have consequences” (as President Obama … Continued

Shift is rarely surprised when liberals double down on a losing strategy, so today we highlight a couple efforts by Democrats to ignore the results of the recent election and try to push through policies that failed at the polls. We start by sharing the lesson learned that we should all get ready for the … Continued

Shift is back from our Thanksgiving break, though we are still working through the leftovers. We hope your holiday weekend was filled with family and friends. We return to report a bit of disruption – from the state Democrats’ intra-mural fighting gaining more attention, to the State Labor Council asking people to ignore charitable giving … Continued

Shift hopes all our readers travel safely to their chosen Turkey Day destination, and that you’ll forgive us for taking a long weekend away from writing. In our last set of posts until Monday, we highlight the Democrats turning on their state party leadership for poor performance, in our ongoing “lessons from the election.”  We … Continued