Playing a tricky toll card in fighting the waterfront tunnel
Does defeating the tunnel by encouraging doubts about tolls do larger damage to an environmental argument?
Does defeating the tunnel by encouraging doubts about tolls do larger damage to an environmental argument?
Progressives denounced everything George W. Bush was doing in the Middle East, Iraq, and Guantanamo. Now, President Obama has adopted very similar policies.
The downtown Sheraton has finally done something about its forbidding blank walls, using big mirrors to "borrow" the attractive architecture of ACT across the street. Plus one great big flower pot. It doesn't really add up.
The tabloid king has used properties like the "Wall Street Journal" in the U.S. and the "Sunday Times" in London to give himself a veneer of respectability and real political power.
Washington still ranks low on many indices of competitiveness. The past session in Olympia, while making only small changes, signaled an important shift in attitude and a recognition of how far outside the business-climate mainstream we are.