Sound Transit officials appear to believe it’s the waiting – not the staggering $50 billion dollar price tag - that has voters leery about their latest scam, Sound Transit 3 (ST3). The scam’s … [Read more...]
Reporter exposes how much Hillary Clinton cares about the First Amendment
KOMO 4 News journalist Lindsay Cohen blasted the Hillary Clinton campaign after her First Amendment rights were trampled during a Democrat rally in Everett last week. Cameras captured Cohen … [Read more...]
Sound Transit needs a lesson on what “on time, on budget” means
Sound Transit officials and the elected cheerleaders that support the agency were really proud over the fact that they finally managed to finish the University Light rail extension (a.k.a. U-Link). … [Read more...]
Sound Transit hides project breakdown for 6 weeks
Sound Transit bureaucrats are normally very excited to have their media relations folks talk at length at what the agency is doing. Except, perhaps, when the agency has a problem. It turns out that … [Read more...]
King County Council considering absurd, pricy “foot ferry” plan
The King County Council decided, for some bizarre reason, to take another look at so-called “foot ferries.” Councilmembers reviewed a 254-page report the proposes to create three foot ferry lines, … [Read more...]
Labor once again stands firmly- against creating jobs
Last year, a Seattle-based development company announced a change in plans to build a new high-rise hotel in downtown Seattle. The developer announced it would proceed with a smaller project that … [Read more...]
Legislative agenda ’16: Addressing carbon regulation pushes
After being frustrated by the Democrat House’s unwillingness to even vote on his cap-and-tax scheme in 2015, Jay Inslee announced last July his intention to bypass the state Legislature and impose a … [Read more...]
Market forces at work, even govt subsidies don’t help biofuels
It was a typical good news/bad news environmental story that the mainstream media loves. Only in this case, as the Seattle Times reported, the good news was for “consumers and the economy”, and the … [Read more...]
The Daily Shift – 12/28/15
With the year coming to a close, Shift continues to highlight some of the 2015’s interesting stories that major media outlets have failed to spend much time on – the latest being California … [Read more...]
Inslee left out of climate change negotiations in Paris, still going
On Friday, Jay Inslee will head to Paris in order to attend an international conference on climate change. According to Inslee, he will “show the state’s commitment to combat what he calls the ‘the … [Read more...]
Your Thanksgiving dinner talking points
The old adage, “The dinner table is no place for politics” doesn’t always hold true when the whole family gets together for Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, the Young Democrats started a Twitter hashtag … [Read more...]
Extreme greenies take credit where credit is not due
Extreme “green” activists love to take credit for natural economic factors. In September, Seattle City Council members Kshama Sawant and Mike O’Brien celebrated Royal Dutch Shell’s withdrawal from the … [Read more...]