Sawant Wins, Chamber Loses. Now What?
Something told me not to write about the election last Tuesday or even Wednesday. It turned out to be the right move. Between the first ballot count on Tuesday night at 8PM and Friday night at about the same time, Kshama Sawant went from being behind by about 10 percentage points to winning the election […]
Don’t Be Fooled: Rent Stabilization is Rent Control
Tomorrow 7 Seattle City Council seats are up for grabs. I already wrote last week about how the local, self-proclaimed, business community is supporting Egan Orion with hundreds of thousands of dollars even though Orion supports rent control. But wait. He doesn’t support rent control. Orion supports rent stabilization. Oh, stabilization. Got it. There’s a […]
The Orion Effect: When Business Won’t Defend Its Own Rational Interests
There is a scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail that, sometimes, seems to be the story of my life. A King is trying to be sure his son follows through with an arranged marriage. The son, Herbert (or Alice) doesn’t want to go through with it. As the King is leaving, he gets two of […]
