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Political “Food Fight” illustrates how dysfunctional Seattle is.

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Culture, Economics, Education, government, Media and the Internet, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought", social media, transportation, Washington State PoliticsLeave a comment

The "food fight" in question involves the City of Seattle plans to pay for school breakfasts and lunches for ALL students, not just "low-income" ones. This is a grand idea of the new Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson, and it has inspired some jousting among City Council members. The issue, of course, is how to pay …

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Is Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail a rolling drug den or a rolling homeless shelter?

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Covid Madness, Culture, Economics, government, Progressive "Thought", Random Musings About Life, transportationLeave a comment

Sound Transit is the Western Washington “light rail” project, for which people in a large area of the Puget Sound (much of it out of reach of the choo-choo train for decades) pay a property tax, a sales tax, and a car-registration tax every year.  The first leg of the train ran from downtown Seattle …

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