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Government Spending

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Gov. Gregoire Strives for Budget Compromise

    Attempting to find middle ground in what's perhaps understated as a contentious situation - closing a near half-billion dollar budget shortfall for the two-year state budget cycle ending June 2013 - Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire reached for a compromise Thursday. The Associated Press reports Gregoi ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2012

    Norm Dicks' Family Problem

    Retirement won't stop talk that he helped his son too much.

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Norm Dicks: The Story of Federal Money He Sent to His Son's State Agency Still Lingers

    It had to do with family, Norm Dicks said in announcing last week that he will retire after this 18th and final term as being known as the congressman from Boeing. The "Top appropriator" - a position that benefited him politically and familially - says he and wife Suzie "have made the decision to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Legal Immigrants Get the Shaft in 9th Circuit Ruling on Food Stamps

    The state Department of Social and Health Services tells Seattle Weekly it isn't going to cut off food stamp benefits to immigrants just yet, even though a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this week allows it to do so. Good thing, because the ruling reinforces a travesty.

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Washington Reps. Norm Dicks and Doc Hastings Called Out in Congressional Earmarks Investigation

    Rep. Norm Dicks​In a Washington Post investigation of congressional earmarks, two Washington lawmakers -- U.S. Reps. Norm Dicks and Doc Hastings -- have been called on the carpet for the questionable use of federal earmarks. They are among 33 members of Congress who, according to the Post's pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Comment of the Day: 'Please Tax My Income!'

    ​Happy Friday, everyone! Today's Comment of the Day winner found an old post and spruced it up with a new, Warren Buffett-style idea.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    SDOT's Ballard Streetcar Plan Would Bring a Piece of France to Seattle

    The Lyon Tramway.​There is no North American equivalent to what Seattle Department of Transportation has proposed as a new transit method for getting from Ballard to downtown Seattle. For reference one would have to go all the way to eastern France.

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Could Seattle Researchers Find a Cure for HIV?

    Timothy Ray Brown, a former Seattle resident, is the first person in the world cured of HIV​A Seattle organization hopes to develop a cure for HIV with the help of a new $20 million federal grant.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Amazon Closes Affiliates in Illinois Over Tax Law, But Is Running Out of Places to Hide

    ​Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn had barely finishing curving the last "n" of his signature on new online retailer tax legislation before Amazon sent out a message to all of its Prairie State that they would no longer be getting paid. That makes four states that have passed laws requiring individual A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Mike McGinn's State of The City: Where Videotape Has Become the New Police Tape

    ​The mayor's State of the City speech yesterday was rather about the future he'd like to see, with more rail, one less tunnel and peace and light in the police department. He was current on one aspect, however, the affect videotape has had on the image of his cops and the status of his adminis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    The Cee Lo Green Editorial The Wall Street Journal Wanted to Write About Obama's Budget

    The Wall Street Journal's editorial board has made no secret of their disdain for Obama Care, and most things on the president's agenda. This morning's response to the president's budget is no exception. But, this time, they made things a bit more interesting, and brought Cee Lo Green to the edito ... More >>

  • Diversions

    January 12, 2011

    Ask a Mexican!

    The Wall Street Journal's editorial board has made no secret of their disdain for Obama Care, and most things on the president's agenda. This morning's response to the president's budget is no exception. But, this time, they made things a bit more interesting, and brought Cee Lo Green to the edito ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    The Art of War

    Seattle's Art Institute rakes in federal cash from the GI Bill.

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    The Art Institute of Seattle Is the State's Second-Largest Recipient of GI Bill Money

    ​Watchdog nonprofit ProPublica recently released a list of the past year's top 500 recipients of post-9/11 GI Bill money. So where are Washington's military members matriculating? The University of Washington is the state's unsurprising clubhouse leader. But running right behind the Northwest' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Rep. Norm Dicks Elected as Top Dem on Spending Panel Now Has Front Row Seat for "Bloodbath" He Warned About

    ​On Thursday, Washington's 6th District Rep. Norm Dicks got the nod to be the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Appropriations, which gets a budget of about $1 trillion, or, in Dicks' world: "lunch money." But with a new Dem-hating GOP majority in the House and Dicks' predictions that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Billion Dollar Shortfall Prompts Gregoire's Call For Special Session

    ​It turns out that Washington state will be another billion dollars in the red if action isn't taken fast. Governor Christine Gregoire is ordering Olympia lawmakers to schedule a one day special session this Thursday to come up with ways to shore up the budget. This particular shortfall is bla ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2010

    Misleaders of the Pack

    It was a banner election season for obfuscation.

  • News

    October 13, 2010

    Patty Murray: The Naked Truth

    Could Washington go pork-free?

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Dino's Stimulus Wackage

    The spending he approved in 2003 looks a lot like the "boondoggles" he's criticizing now.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Dino Rossi's Own Record of Stimulus Spending

    ​U.S. Senate hopeful Dino Rossi called the federal stimulus package (approved by incumbent Patty Murray) "a collection of wasteful earmarks and bailouts." But Rossi himself, when he was in the state Senate, put millions of dollars of government money into struggling businesses and job-creati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Seattle Schools Blunders Again in Applying for Federal Funds for Native American Students

    The district still doesn't know how many Native American students it has.​Seattle Public Schools owned up to a big blunder in March when it revealed that it had submitted misinformation on federal grant applications for a program serving Native American students--and would consequently have to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    With Lots of Questions Raised by ObamaCare, Governor Appoints New Health Care Cabinet

    Gregoire will direct her new cabinet to weigh the fate of the Basic Health Plan.​As a press conference with Governor Chris Gregoire made clear today, the president's sweeping health care bill may be signed but there are still lots of decisions that Washington state has to make. For instance, t ... More >>

  • News

    March 24, 2010

    Affluent Kids Come at a Cost: Thurgood Marshall Elementary in the CD finds that an influx of highly gifted students will cost it federal funds

    Gregoire will direct her new cabinet to weigh the fate of the Basic Health Plan.​As a press conference with Governor Chris Gregoire made clear today, the president's sweeping health care bill may be signed but there are still lots of decisions that Washington state has to make. For instance, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Thurgood Marshall Elementary Loses $200,000 as Affluent, "Gifted" Students Move In

    Robin LaananenStudents at Thurgood Marshall before the APP kids arrived.​When the Seattle School District last fall moved some 200 students in its "highly gifted" program into Thurgood Marshall Elementary, which was populated largely by poor and minority children, everybody knew officials risk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Reporters Have Mike McGinn's Struggling Seawall Plan For Lunch

    There's not much time for eating when you're dealing with reporters and their incessant questions.​Mayor Mike McGinn invited reporters to have lunch with him today, leaving himself open to any and all questions. But most of the conversation was devoted to one thing--his seawall proposal. McG ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    John McCain Takes Aim at Sound Transit 2

    "Go ahead," says Steve. "Make my day."​John McCain didn't fare too well in these parts last November, getting only 28% of the vote in King County. By contrast, Sound Transit did fare well, getting 60% of the vote in same. Now it looks like Mr. Unpopular wants to take down Mr. Popular (is a lig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Green for Green: Feds Give Seattle Stimulus Cash for Clean Energy Projects

    Get used to seeing these.​While Seattle's lost out on some stimulus money (for example, for city transportation projects), and Greg Nickels lost an election, they both got a boost today in the form of $1.4 million from the Department of Energy for "clean fuels, vehicles, and infrastructure pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Is Washington State Falling Behind in the Green Collar Revolution?

    This guy has three green collars (plus one blue, just to keep it real)That's what a Pew Charitable Trust study that came out earlier this week said. The study found that clean energy jobs grew at 2.5 times the pace of the rest of the economy from 1998-2007 (hence the term "Green Collar Revolution") ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Peas in a Pod, Fighting

    David C. WongGod help us if this is the campaign debate we have to look forward to. In today's Times, Jan Drago takes some shots at Greg Nickels' effectiveness in Olympia, saying the Mayor's purportedly my-way-or-the-highway style isn't selling in the South Sound. (A few legislators echo the sentime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Drug Policy Goes Around, Comes Around

    (Updated below) With our former police chief off to DC to be the "Drug Czar", there's been a lot of speculation about what we'll end up doing for federal drug policy. (Not much, says Norm Stamper, in his inaugural turn as a P-I columnist.) But then there's the question of what federal drug policy wi ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    Stimulating Parking Tickets?

    The mayor wants $400K for a better way to write you up.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Nickels' Viaduct Fight Makes the NYT

    Everyone wants a chuck of President Obama's federal stimulus spending, especially when it comes to costly transportation projects. The first $26.6 billion was released today, according to The New York Times, which also quotes our Mayor Greg Nickels griping about our state legislature omitting Seattl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Nickels' Stimulus Plan: More Parking Tickets

    Among the projects Mayor Greg Nickels has sought to fund with the Obama stimulus money is the purchase of $412,540 worth of new devices to issue parking tickets in Seattle. It's a proposal that has some asking what hizzoner is thinking since, for one, it adds no new jobs, and two, appears to stimula ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Nickels Pulls a Fast One?

    Updates Below That's what Councilmembers Rasmussen and Licata say happened with yesterday's vote to approve funding for the Mercer corridor project, which many council members thought would get federal stimulus money. Today, the legislature announced the recipients of the state's share of stimulu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    What Can Kerlikowske Do as Drug Czar?

    Peter The Great was czar of RussiaAs Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske will be pretty limited in his ability to advocate for reforms. As we noted earlier, the office is legally prohibited from advocating for the reclassification of current illegal drugs, including for medical purposes. "Most peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    The Bridge From Capitalism to Socialism

    Peter The Great was czar of RussiaAs Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske will be pretty limited in his ability to advocate for reforms. As we noted earlier, the office is legally prohibited from advocating for the reclassification of current illegal drugs, including for medical purposes. "Most peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2008

    Kicking Off His Run for November: McCain at the Westin

    Peter The Great was czar of RussiaAs Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske will be pretty limited in his ability to advocate for reforms. As we noted earlier, the office is legally prohibited from advocating for the reclassification of current illegal drugs, including for medical purposes. "Most peopl ... More >>

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    A Viaduct Option Is Buried

    The state says there's no money for less capacity on a surface roadway.

  • News

    February 23, 2005

    Transfer of Wealth

    The state says there's no money for less capacity on a surface roadway.

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    Room with a D骠 Vu

    ... As I read, I shook my head. The testimonials were the same 16 years later. ...

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Over Extended

    A provider of federal money says it might audit public KCTS.

  • News

    June 19, 2002

    Number of the Week

    A provider of federal money says it might audit public KCTS.

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    Ballot congestion

    Politicians may ask the voters for $20 billion in new taxes.

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    Who Said It?

    Politicians may ask the voters for $20 billion in new taxes.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    Council: Unsound logic

    Politicians may ask the voters for $20 billion in new taxes.

  • News

    October 18, 2000

    How bad is Al?

    Politicians may ask the voters for $20 billion in new taxes.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Nickeled and damned?

    County Council member and mayoral hopeful Greg Nickels bets the farm on Sound Transit's shaky finances.

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Kitsap County: The war goes on

    County Council member and mayoral hopeful Greg Nickels bets the farm on Sound Transit's shaky finances.

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    Gorton rides again

    The senator goes after tribal profits.

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