Jobs Tax: For the Seattle City Council, Politics Matters More Than Science
The other night I got cc’ed on an email to the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle City Council by my friend, science writer Alex Berezow. Berezow is a writes for a variety of publications both print and online and is Senior Fellow of Biomedical Science at the American Council on Science and Health. He’s also written […]
ICYMI: Seattle For Growth Takes on Housing in Crosscut
Last week Crosscut gave me some real estate to talk about housing and why we’re not supportive of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ), especially the City of Seattle’s version of it, Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). Simply put, what MHA is squeezes money out of the development of market rate housing and funnels it into a very […]
Seattle Wants to Tax Jobs: More Money, More Money, More Money!
Seattle as a city and as a government is becoming notorious for creating task forces, committees, and other convening’s to come up with solutions to “big problems.” Almost without exception, the task force states the problem as “severe” a “crisis” or a problem at such as scale to demand action now. Usually there are big […]
