Senator Elizabeth Warren will be speaking at Pastor Rich Lang’s University Temple Methodist Church near UW (1415 NE 43rd Street), at 7 PM Thursday May 29. Tickets at $34.90 are available via Brown Paper Tickets. This price includes admission, fees and a copy of her book “A Fighting Chance.†Buy Tickets
The Bellevue Reporter published my letter-to-the-editor about King County voters’ recent rejection of Proposition 1. With gas prices at $3.75 a gallon, the cost of filling up a tank of gas ranges from $63.75 for a Toyota Corolla (gas tank capacity 17 gallons) to $116.25 for a Chevy Suburban (tank capacity of 31 gallons). But…
After all, fewer buses means more traffic, more pollution, more lung disease, more carbon, more hardship for the poor and elderly, more money to the oil companies and the Koch brothers, and more kickbacks to themselves. What’s not to like with all that?
A mere twenty people or so showed up at Congressman Adam Smith’s Town Hall meeting on Mercer Island on April 23, 2014. I arrived five minutes beforehand and found myself standing alone with Rep. Smith. I asked him why he didn’t support the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ Better Off Budget. He said he voted against the…
In High poverty counties tend to vote Republican in Washington State, I observed that Washington State counties with a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line tend to vote Republican. In this article, I extend my analysis to other states. The following scatter graph shows, for counties with population greater than 10,000, how…
For details see How the Koch Brothers worked to defeat Democrats in Washington State
The issue of regressive taxes is in the news recently and is being raised by both supporters and opponents of Proposition 1. The Seattle Times, in their April 5 editorial against Proposition 1 mentioned regressive taxes twice. The editorial begins: “VOTERS should weigh the regressive tax request embedded in King County Proposition 1 against history.”…
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