A true miscarriage of justice was announced late last week, as a “federal judge incited a firestorm in Washington state politics Friday with his redrawing of a contested Yakima Valley legislative district.” That report from the Washington State Standard doesn’t even begin to tell the whole tawdry partisan nature of the story, as “the new map boots five sitting GOP legislators out of districts from which they were elected in 2022.”

You can tell how bad this decision is that it was hailed by the state Democrat Party as “a great day for democracy” now that a Hispanic senator has been removed from the district that elected her. Read on instead to see that the targeted Senator Nikki Torres pointed out “this map is a mockery of the Voting Rights Act. This map disenfranchises Hispanics – all to help the Democratic party gain seats.” … Washington State Standard.

Democrats from Seattle who already enjoy the benefits of hydroelectric dams far away from their city love to demand that others in the state live without such inexpensive renewable energy. That’s why it was good to see the Spokesman Review provide space to point out that an earlier op-ed “ignores the basics of supply and demand and overlooks the stark realities of our current energy picture” in advocating for the destruction of the four Lower Snake River dams.

It was those Sierra Club talking points that spurred this piece, highlighting that the “United States, including Washington, is grappling with an energy supply crisis. In the past four years, as the result of insufficient electricity supply, utilities across 12 states have been forced to intentionally implement power outages when customers needed electricity the most.” You can read on to see that “the question isn’t whether we can replace productive hydropower dams; it’s whether we can afford to lose them amidst skyrocketing electricity demand and clean energy objectives. The answer is a resounding no.” … Spokesman-Review.

Shift has long covered the fight over homeless policy in Burien, a South Seattle suburb that is trying desperately not to become like Seattle in welcoming unregulated street living. That has bothered a few activists in the area, who have descended upon the city, demanding that all public spaces become camping spaces.

That advocacy led to the unfortunate reality reported by the B-town blog that a man “died at a homeless encampment in Downtown Burien on Thursday, Mar. 14… from ‘acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine’,” according to King County. Read on for more details about how the person involved in this tragic incident had (as reported in 2019) “been arrested 105 times for numerous crimes, including alleged child kidnapping attempt(s), four felonies, and 38 gross misdemeanors, along with multiple drug convictions, according to court records.” … B-town Blog.

Doesn’t it seem a tad ironic that the Seattle Times, a news media company guaranteed monopoly status by the government a couple decades ago yet now reduced to constantly begging for government handouts of one kind or another to survive, feels very confident telling other companies what they “must” do. Evidently failure is a great teacher.

That’s the reality that struck the Shift team when we read the Times editorial that saw them jumping on the Boeing bandwagon on the side of labor in “upcoming full contract negotiations, the first in 16 years.” There were several “musts”, including “move its corporate headquarters from Virginia back to Seattle.” Regardless of how you view the Boeing Company, and its current challenges, you can read on to see if you think the Seattle Times editorial board is where the company should look for real estate and other counsel… Seattle Times.

The Shift team could not let this news nugget go by, especially after highlighting the Times anti-Boeing screed above, as it turns out that “The Seattle Times is now the only newspaper in the state publishing print editions seven days a week.”

That tidbit comes from the retired scribes over at Post Alley. Read on to see that sad situation came about after falling subscriber numbers caused “the troubled McClatchy chain to reduce the frequency of print editions of its four newspapers (Bellingham, Tacoma, Olympia, Tri Cities) in Washington state.”… Post Alley.

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