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Seattle parks levy leads to unwise spending
As a result of the well-intended 2008 vote, Phinney Ridge, for example, could get one new park and upgrades to an existing park that was recently improved.
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Why Eyman's I-960 will paradoxically drive up taxes
Joel Connelly has a good column [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/337509_joel31.html] in today's Post-Intelligencer, inveighing against Tim Eyman's Initiative 960, the latest legislative straightjacket from the populist tax-cutter. Connelly takes aim at the way I-960 would give one third of th
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Crosscut on TV
Crosscutters on the tube this weekend and streaming on the Web forever: O. Casey Corr, C.R. Douglas, Knute Berger, and Chris Vance.
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No, really, this is a watershed election
Beyond the pettiness of the campaign just ending lies the potential emergence of a whole new mood in Seattle-area politics. It would start with a muting of the cultural wars that have bedeviled Seattle politics ever since 9/11. Call it the revenge of the center.
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Tax-reduction redux
Once again, Washington lawmakers are about to make law from flaw, correcting what Tim Eyman got wrong but embracing what voters clearly want: a crimp on taxation.