Will Any Candidate Stand Up to “Angry Seattle?”

When I first visited Seattle way back in 1983 I fell in love with the city. My affection for the place grew from afar; I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I would finish high school. After high school I set out for Tacoma, and the University of Puget Sound, largely because of its proximity […]

The Dori Monson Show Highlights Non-Proift Housing Industrial Complex

Once again Dori Monson gets it and then says something about it. And, as I wrote last week here and at Forbes, Governor Jay Inslee simply doesn’t get how housing works; or he does and he doesn’t want anyone to know about it. Every time I point out and criticize spendy subsidized projects, I get […]

Governor Inslee Fails Simple Test and Vetos a Study on Housing Costs

Over the last year two years, non-profit housing agencies, the Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and El Centro De La Raza (El Centro), each completed a housing projects, CHIP on Capitol Hill in 2015 and El Centro on Beacon Hill last year, in 2016. The CHIP project has 88 units of housing and the […]