Support the Key Arena Rebuild

Seattle’s mayor nickels is making this much harder than it needs to be:

You could practically hear the clank in Olympia on Monday after Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels asked leading state Democrats to endorse a hypothetical tax package to fund the $220 million KeyArena renovation the Sonics are demanding, a proposal the city essentially . . . → Read More: Support the Key Arena Rebuild

Private Potties for Servants?

Just why has public money been spent to provide a private bathroom for Renton’s mayor?

Council President Randy Corman said a staffer invited him to use the mayor’s private bathroom, which he didn’t do. He can account for every second of his time, he said, and he was always surrounded by people.

“In 10 . . . → Read More: Private Potties for Servants?

Theft and Sacrifice

In today’s Seattle Times Floyd McKay reports that one of the retired generals calling for rummies resignation was struck by the “lack of sacrifice and commitment on the part of the American people,” excepting military families

and closes his opinion piece with But all in all, the upper and middle classes don’t . . . → Read More: Theft and Sacrifice