Seattle Sisyphus: Reflections on Where We Are Today
A very smart and trusted colleague and I were sitting in the Neighbor Lady a few weeks ago. He said, “I think you and I, for the foreseeable future, are doomed to keep rolling a rock up a hill just to have it come rolling back down.” His reference to Sisyphus hit home, since from […]
Crosscut and Seattle Times Hand Big Win to Job Tax Advocates
The horse, as they say, is out of the barn. So are the pigs, and the chickens, and all the communists pushing for a tax on jobs in Seattle. The Seattle Times and Crosscut have posted stories about a very poorly argued post about a study by McKinsey Company about the City needing $400 million […]
Seattle City Council: Unhelpful Screening Ban Gets a Court Challenge
The Seattle City Council has demonstrated before it isn’t all that concerned about math, supporting a tax on jobs that is threatening new jobs in the city while producing a tiny number of units, 1,780, five years from now, maybe, at a cost of $285,000,000. Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez claims this small number will somehow address […]
