In a Seattle PI guest editorial titled Complete Picture for Viaduct Funding Davd K.Y. Tang and Steve Leahyin urge Washington residents to contact their congress critters and ask them to support federal funding for the Seattle Viaduct project.
Why, though, would anyone pick up the phone, write an email, etc., based on the incomplete information in […]

She stole $143,000 from the Edmonds School District and is going to jail for 14 months:
Lewin, a former district bookkeeper, has no criminal history, and she stood to spend just three months or less in the county jail under the state’s sentencing laws.
By law, Bowden was able to go beyond the standard sentencing range because […]

Timothy Goddard notes:
Regardless of what happened Monday morning, the gubernatorial election showed that Washington is very evenly divided between red and blue–but the fact that only a three of our nine person delegation to the House of Representatives is Republican doesn’t bear that out. However, there’s a man who aims to make that score a […]

A gentleman in Boise recently became somewhat wealthier:
There’s a lot of “if I won the lottery” talk in Boise these days, what with an unidentified, 30-something Boisean holding a $220.3 million Powerball jackpot ticket. The unnamed winner has to decide whether to take his winnings as a single, $125 million payout (before taxes) all at […]

I like the idea of Instant Runoff Voting. It makes a lot more sense than the voting variant enacted last election in Washington and certainly would have eliminated the long and wasteful argument over the 2004 Washington contest for governor.
Brian at Washblog points out this animation that describes how IRV works.

Sequim politicians are planning to build a new city hall:
A new building would allow city offices to be consolidated into one building and could also provide space for expansion as the city continues to grow.
And
City leaders have promised that the public will have a say in planning for a new City Hall.
The public should just […]