The past week must have been exciting for local balloteer Tim Eyman. First, the state Supreme Court appeared to side with Eyman [http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/olympia/archive.asp?postID=8510#more] when it heard arguments from Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown about the consitutionality of Ini
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi has been hammering Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire in his advertisements for raising "the gas tax." But as Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly points out today [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/378810_Joel12.html], "Rossi would take a
David Goldstein at Horse's Ass wrote over the weekend – post gubernatorial debate – that "there is no state budget deficit [http://www.horsesass.org/?p=7219]," prompting me to wonder what the hell he was talking about. I thought, "Did I miss something?" As Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire said in Satu
Liberal bloggers gotta love this. Some of the elite conservative pundits [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?em] are growing skeptical about the McCain campaign's performance in the past weeks. Others are jumping ship altogether. The latest to leave the GOP stable is Washington
Now, we all know Microsoft was a big – like $200,000 big – supporter of Sound Transit's 2007 measure to expand light rail around Puget Sound. But as Mike Lindblom at The Seattle Times reported on Monday [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008194706_prop1overview22m.html], the Redmond t
