Metro bus users and taxpayers should rejoice that Seattle is soliciting bids from companies to fund, design and replace bus shelters, benches, trash cans and information signs. In addition, residents will benefit from a requirement that the winning vendor must maintain them to higher standards than King County Metro currently provides. The company will recoup […]
Time for some real change on homeless policies
With recent newspaper headlines such as “Homeless crisis in plain sight”, it’s clear that Seattle’s “Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness” has failed. With ambitious and clearly articulated goals of virtually ending the problem by 2014, no more tent cities or encampments and the expectation that some shelters would close, it’s hard to reach any other […]
California’s citizens get the vote Seattle’s did not
Three cheers for the likelihood that California’s ban on plastic shopping bags will end up on the ballot for voters to weigh the pros and cons. It was scheduled to be phased in starting in July, but opponents appear to have gathered enough signatures to allow citizens rather than legislators to decide. This is as […]
Life expectancy and infant mortality – poor health care performance measures
Supporters of Obamacare or those who want to go further and implement universal health care in the US often make the argument that America spends more than most countries on health care, but relatively speaking gets pretty lousy results. Having personally experienced universal health care systems in the UK, New Zealand and Australia this argument […]
Keep government out of preschool
<Originally posted at Sound Politics> Government funded preschool is one of the latest public policy fads and unfortunately Seattle might catch on to it this election with two initiatives on the ballot. Although the Seattle Times editorial board got it right in recommending a no vote on Proposition 1A, it recommended we “hop on the […]
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