The great folks at Seattle Transit Blog tipped us to this month's yet another audit conducted on Sound Transit. Independent auditor KPMG LLP gave the agency high marks. Since the corrupt private sector is naturally suspect, we're glad that this week's audit comes on the heels of a previous one released in January by State Auditor Brian Sonntag. But fear not, Eyman. As the Seattle PI reported back in May, the State is planning......

Welcome back to the Port of Seattle Roast, already in progress. Yesterday the Port released its response to a hilariously detailed audit commissioned by State Auditor Brian Sonntag, which "agrees with 37 of the audit's 49 recommendations," reports the Seattle Times. For instance, the Port will immediately cease informal ways of resolving disagreements with contractors, known as "tummy rubs." The state audit detailed a case in which a Port construction manager wrote a contractor "let's......

The fallout from State Auditor Brian Sonntag's review of past Port of Seattle business practices continues. The P-I reports this morning that:Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, announced she plans to introduce legislation to repeal the Port of Seattle's property tax authority.We appreciate our legislators noticing that there's a Port of Seattle at long last, and that oversight has been lacking. But cutting off the property tax? Here's what's at issue, again summarized by the P-I:That......

If you're the Port of Seattle, you spend it on all kinds of stuff! Woo hoo! It's a mad-money third runway! A state audit by buzzkill Brian Sonntag indicates that the "Port has wasted $97.2 million in taxpayer money during construction projects and contracts active from January 2004 to March 2007...(P-I)" and helpfully makes "51 recommendations that he said could help the Port avoid waste in the future... (Times)." The Seattle P-I and Seattle Times......