The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

Arrogance.

Anyone voting Alani Bankhead in MT is simply BlueMAGA

For sure, just don’t want people to have the impression the engineering couldn't be done. Norway has numerous road tunnels in places like this, for example. The big “problem” (if you could call it that) is political and financial.

It would require some serious engineering, but some type of fixed link is absolutely, 100% possible, at least for Seattle-Vashon Island (and then Bainbridge would be trivial). In many respects the harder problem would be the roads people would inevitably want on either side.

I don’t disagree, I just think it’s understandable from their perspective to put money there given that these orgs tend to be incumbent protection rackets anyway.

Oregon is absolutely a competitive race at the moment.

Ballots for the November 3 general election will be mailed to Spokane County voters starting on Wednesday, October 14.

More cafes in public parks, please!

I will never forgive what UW did to its in-state peer by killing the PAC-12.

Also consider the added 2-3 minutes of commute time the station adds for everyone who isn’t using it, compounded over millions of commutes every year.

I mean, I can understand it! It’s essentially “they have so much money that they can waste it, while we in eastern Washington are struggling to fund some of our very basic infrastructure."

Most resentments are irrational, unfortunately.

– We need comprehensive and rigorous tax reform to eliminate hereditary wealth and restore meritocracy in this country.

Eliminate the step-up in basis.

I am not an architect, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that a five story building with two staircases is not a single-stair building.

It’s money Seattle could and should have used better, and it’s things like this that cause some people in eastern Washington to resent western Washington.

Where could $250 million have made a bigger impact?

I liked the guy for a long time but its pretty clear that listening to Ed Zitron about AI is not making you better informed about the subject

Washington and Inslee are rightfully called out - the Connecting Washington package was a disaster fiscally that made it harder to realize our broader policy goals