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Well, Windmageddon 2016 has come and gone, so we can return our focus to trying to survive the hot air storm that is our campaign season. Just 21 days remain until the ballots begin to be counted. At Shift today we highlighted the liberal money behind many of the sleazy ads we’ll be seeing in … Continued

The folks at Shift survived Windmageddon 2016 with only one brief power outage – in well-managed Seattle, of course – and are prepared for another week. Fortunately the storm ended up like the media’s approach to Hillary Clinton’s ever-growing WikiGate scandal – just much ado about nothing. Despite far less interest from mainstream media in … Continued

Just in time for the Big Windmageddon 2016, Shift is taking on three windbags before the weekend – Jay Inslee, Sound Transit, and Alan Durning of Initiative 1464 fame.  In the case of Inslee, our weekly look at his calendar reveals a governor enjoying some road trips, as he tries to stay out of the … Continued

National events pushed Seattle’s City Council clown show off the Shift pages today, as the continued drip-drip-drip of internal Hillary Clinton campaign emails provide daily amusement – if not enlightenment – for those that aren’t so disgusted by the latest Trump revelations that they have turned off the all electronic communication devices. Likewise disgusting, for … Continued

Shift focuses on Seattle today because, well, that’s where the craziness runs amok these days. We start with Sound Transit, and its Seattle-centric $54 billion tax plan – and how the Proposition 1 campaign is getting a nice boost from the bureaucrats at the public agency thanks to an 8-page propaganda piece they just sent … Continued

Four weeks from today, the advertising (for politics) will end (for awhile), and we’ll have a better idea whether the voters have left much money in our wallets for holiday presents (and maybe even a Thanksgiving turkey). In Shift today we focus on a few issues that will impact how much money government will be … Continued

Like the rest of the country, folks here at Shift are still recovering from the must-see TV that was the second presidential debate last night. It’s amazing what people will find to fill the time when the Seahawks take a week off from playing. In honor of the debate, we feature today yet another embarrassing … Continued

Featuring Jay Inslee almost putting in a full 40-hour week of official business and an internal Sierra Club fight over the carbon tax, last week on Shift we highlighted items we don’t normally see. But, by week’s end things were returning to normal, with a more recent Inslee calendar showing him back to fitting his … Continued

Happy Friday, and we have a series of funnies today for your reading pleasure. Our feature is on Jay Inslee’s calendar from last week, where we can see that, once again, he barely put in a day’s worth of official work in exchange for a week’s worth of public pay. Also worth a few laughs … Continued

The crazy things that liberals say dominates Shift today. In our feature we take a look at the latest spin from Sound Transit – that the $54 billion dollar ST3 campaign is just a War on Cars. You know, the foul, #1 polluter that allows you to get to work, school, etc. We highlight another losing … Continued

Hump day finds the Shift team playing catch-up, and finding plenty of (hopefully) interesting items for our readers. We lead with a feature on the intra-mural battle of the “greens”, with the internal battles of the state’s Sierra Club chapter being played out in the media over the bad policy that is Initiative 732. Nothing … Continued

The weekend was full of news to catch up on, so Shift grabbed a few morsels you might have missed while cheering on the Seahawks, or Huskies, or Cougars, or even the last weekend of the Mariners until 2017. The lead item is a review of all the taxes you will get to pay if … Continued