$400 Million a Year to Solve Homelesses? Fake News!
The next time you hear someone saying Seattle needs $400 million a year to “solve” homelessness, send them my post at Forbes, Seattle: A Tax On Jobs, $400 Million, And The Report That Never Was. City leaders were citing a report that never existed, reported as fact by reporters that never verified its existence, to justify […]
Durkan Is Not Better for Business
Last year, after Mayor Jenny Durkan was sworn in, I was pretty critical of her early decisions, especially appointing more than half a dozen non-profits and Vulcan to her transition team. I even called a post about Durkan, “So Far Not So Good.” This made somebody really mad. I got some heat for not sending […]
Fire, Ready, Aim: The City Already Owns Land to Build Over 2000 Units
I think most people at the City, Crosscut, and the Seattle Times have their e-mail set up so that anything from my address goes directly into the trash. But still, I have to try. This goes back several years to when we were fighting against linkage taxes. I didn’t do this work but I don’t […]
