Some King County council members have finally figured out that money taken from citizens should not be used to support commercial endeavors:
County Councilmen David Irons and Dwight Pelz on Monday formally presented a pair of proposed bills that would prevent the use of county funds or state or federal grants to support efforts to allow [...]

There was an article in today’s Seattle Times about a phenomena called curbstoning which, given their liberal definition of the article, any of us who have bought a vehicle from a private party have been involved with. Read the article for the juice on curbstoning.
What really struck me was that [...]

The Seattle Times today presented one of the best arguments I have seen for terminating the Monorail Project:
• Operations would almost certainly have to be subsidized somehow, as no public-finance expert interviewed by The Times believes the monorail’s claims that it can support itself from fares, ads and self-generated revenue.
“Typically, urban transportation projects in the [...]