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It's always gratifying when a major news organization cuts through the political spin and informs readers of what is really happening with government budgets. Amid loud claims of a supposed state budget deficit, a Seattle Times editorial on Sunday correctly notes that "...tax collections for public services are up." Only in the public sector is a slowdown in the rise of expected tax revenue called a "shortfall." For most of us a rise in household income of say, 8%, instead of an expected 10%,...
SEATTLE–We often hear that it is important to lead by example. Lately, the example set by Seattle's elected leaders has been one of lawlessness, civic breakdown and broken governance. City leaders ordered police to evacuate a police station and abandon a six-block neighborhood to radical left-wing groups, who set up a Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), since re-labeled an Occupied Protest (CHOP). Authorities retreated after they had failed to stop widespread looting and arson in Seattle's o...
