Boeing Field Will Stay Commercial-Free

King County Executive Ron Sims, the only local politician willing to give the smallest amount of daylight to Southwest Airlines' proposal to build a new terminal at Boeing Field, caved yesterday.

One day after the Stranger reported the intimate connection (literally!) between a Southwest lobbyist and Sims' campaign manager (they are married), Sims announced at a news conference that he's rejecting both Southwest's proposal and Alaska's copycat one.

Why? According to the Seattle Times report, Sims cited noise, traffic, possible taxpayer contribution, and potential legal complications as his reasons for rejecting the project.

Eventually, this region will need a new airport--but, evidently, we must find a way to build one that's silent, that no one drives to, that will be paid for by a millionaire philanthropist, and which will require no permits. In other words, you will continue to endure the awful loading traffic, insufficient parking, small terminals, and slow security lines at Sea-Tac for the rest of your natural life.