Initiatives: Many are filed, but few are sane
This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s print edition. Initiatives. Pity the state that lacks the political entertainment. A few of this year’s bumper crop of ballot measures have gotten all the media,...
View ArticleVoters’ message: No taxes, no bail, no privatization
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. Washington voters are an independent lot. There’s no way to put a party label on the way they voted on Tuesday’s ballot measures. As they’ve...
View ArticleKISS principle prevailed in Washington’s elections
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. In the middle of the hardest economy most of us have known, the citizens of Pierce County on Tuesday approved a new tax. A sales tax, no less, to...
View ArticleVoters should be willing to pay cost of initiatives they approve
This editorial will appear in Monday’s print edition. The state’s current budget morass makes at least one point all too obvious: The pot of money available to fund services is a finite one. Add a new...
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