Sightline's Clark Williams-Derry has discovered a funny thing that will happen if Eyman's iniative passes--eastern Washington will be paying for Eyman's scheme to "fix" Seattle-area traffic congestion.And whatever Mr. Eyman might hope or claim, I-985 would wind up shifting about $180 million in revenues from the rest of the state into greater Seattle. Over 5 years, we expect that the average family of four outside of the Seattle area will ship about $229 in tax......

The papers in town have lapped up this story, so we're doing it too. The difference is that we are using it solely as a vehicle to deliver a more accurate graphic. Perpetually vigilant Watch-man spammed Wash DOT today with a stern email, informing them that the ill-conceived and clearly failed HOV system's days are numbered. State transportation secretary Paula Hammond stated DOT received "15 or 16 copies." There was no word on how......

Not only will you be voting for a new president in November (finally!), but a few new measures have been added to the local ballot. Initiative 1000—the "Death with Dignity" initiative—has made it on the state-wide ballot after amassing 224,880 valid petition signatures. Washington voters will have their say on the controversial topic of assisted suicide and whether or not to allow terminally ill people to obtain a fatal prescription to end their own lives.......

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......

We really don't feel it's the day after an election until we overhear people talking about how they forgot to vote, didn't know there was an election, and how they'll definitely vote next time. If they had been paying attention from August through this morning, they would have learned that Seattle voters will not let you drive 50mph down Market Street after a few drinks, but they will let you work for an anti-gay organization,......

And it fucking sucked! Proposition 1, the roads and transit thing, was stabbed in the eye with a hot needle. It was closest in King County where it wasn't close (55%-44%), with Snohomish and Pierce counties pwning it 57%-42%. Money quote: "There is no Plan B." Tim Eyman's anti-tax initiative sucker punched almost every county except King, Jefferson, San Juan and Whitman. Resolution 4204, which would have allowed school district levies to pass with a......

--The guy who was in charge of the Zune squirted himself off the Microsoft campus to "focus on the next chapter of his life." Riiight. X-Box leader J Allard takes over. --Can't sum this up better than the P-I did: "King County alone has more levees at risk of failure in a flood than in all but one other state in the nation." --Irony Alert: The guy who started an initiative to declare Tim Eyman......

--Tim Eyman is still doing his Tim Eyman routine to the thunderous ticks of the second hand drawing his fifteen minutes to a close. --Nial Kennedy punked Microsoft today by replacing an image of his that Microsoft was linking to with this modified goatse picture. --Remember that guy your sister used to date who was a cousin of the guy's dad who worked with the neighbor of that Merit Financial dude from the news?......

A: What Ken Jennings writes when he autographs copies of Brainiac. Other things we learned at Town Hall last night, at the opening of Seattle Follies' fourth season: Goldy (of horsesass.org) cannot pronounce Ichiro without help from the audience. (His initial effort sounded something like "icky-row.") Ken Jennings can pull off an uncanny vocal impression of Popeye. Steve Scher of KUOW's Weekday resembles a svelter Harold Ramis. Scher is a good choice if you need......

-Tim Eyman's car tab initiative ain't gonna make it on the ballot which makes him 0-3 lately: No car tab initiative, no legally mandated bigotry and his Vader costume was nowhere near as funny or as cool as Cee-lo's. -The Seattle Times photog who got hit in the head by a baseball is alive and well enough to recount the ordeal in all its terrible detail ("They tell me I convulsed on the ground......

Rumors abound early this week concerning a most ghastly notion, a dark vision that has kept us sleepless: reportedly, both the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies called Mariners GM Bill Bavasi over the weekend to inquire about a potential trade for Ichiro. Candidates for the swap included Roy Oswalt from Houston and some insulting combination of Bobby Abreu, Cory Lidle, and Arthur Rhodes from Philly. Abreu and Lidle finally landed with the New York Yankees......

All this time we thought that Tim Eyman was just a greedy ego driven douche bag. Well, we are still right, but it also looks like he is a huge nerd. Eyman called a press conference in Olympia to show and turn in the signatures he gathered for two of his initiatives-- one that would repeal the civil rights legislation passed by the state legislature last winter and one concerning his obsession over 30 dollar......

Last week Democrat Dwight Pelz and Republican Diane Tebelius were elected to head their state political parties. Local douche bag Tim Eyman will challenge the state’s new civil rights bill. Next year the state primary may be held in August. Today Sally Clark will be sworn onto the City Council. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing really changes. Before the game one of our roommates mentioned that Condoleezza Rice had picked the Steelers, to which our other......

Tim Eyman, no doubt making a healthy living these days on the backs of Eastern Washingtonians, filed an initiative to undo the civll rights bill the state legislature finally got around to approving last week. He's been branching out recently from his usual fare of initiatives against economic and transportation infrastructure progess in the state to include attacks on social progress as well. If we actually believed that Tim was anything more than a figurehead......

Last year, while Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire spelunked for votes among felons, troops on leave, and the deceased in their closely-contested gubernatorial race, some saw it as evidence that this state's electorate is divided right down the middle...irreconcilably broken between pinko commie lefty and fascist pig righty. Apparently, we've reunited. State-, county-, and city-wide, the electorate seemed pretty sure of itself about most issues on this year's ballot, including: Whether we want to, occasionally,......

Seattlest (like much of Seattle) likes to ignore the Viaduct's continued existence. Sure, we're as happy as anyone to propound our right-thinking solution to a disinterested audience, but the weather's been very nice. We've had other things on our plate. So a hearty thanks to the People's Waterfront Coalition for reminding us the sagging concrete monstrosity is still there. They're feeling chipper these days because, as they say in their email: If the gas tax......

Initiatives, they are the voice of the people-- which is a really sad thought. Sure, Tim Eyman may have ruined everything in this state with his grand plan to fix local government and buy as much stuff as possible using his supporters' money; however, he is not behind the latest effort to get tax reform on the ballot. Initiative 912 would repeal the 9 cent per gallon tax passed by the state legislature. The money......