Affordable Seattle: Magical Thinking Meets Brute Force
I discovered something this weekend, a new website created by the socialist party in Seattle called Affordable Seattle. What would be funny if it wasn’t so serious is how wrong the website is about who is actually running Seattle. The website is sort of Orwellian in its narrative of “big business” and promising that if […]
Mayor Election 2017: Lots of Candidates but Not a Lot of Leadership
Running for office isn’t easy. It’s more or less a gauntlet of trying to make and keep people happy. There is an element of sport to it since it is competitive. But anyone who has been through it will either say they love it or they hate it. Those that love it tend to be […]
Herbold Throws Shade on Johnson’s “Mission Accomplished” Moment
You might remember that I wrote about Councilmember Rob Johnson’s Mission Accomplished moment a few weeks ago when he claimed that several developers had backtracked on their already approved projects in order to voluntarily participate in the Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ). I pointed out that he simply made our case that if MIZ is so […]
