On February 26, 2024, a politician spoke in front of a small yet very passionate group of activists who had gathered with homemade signs to support an announcement from the public official. She tells the crowd how her sister died of an overdose the day before her 26th birthday and how the progressive’s “harm reduction”...
We are kinda disappointed in you, Mr. Mayor. You’ve been in office for 27 months, and you have yet to tell Seattle residents what your plan is to combat the city’s serious crime and drug problems. (We, and many others have been asking you for your strategy since you were elected on a tough-on-crime platform...
As Washington State lawmakers in the State Capitol Building debate Governor Jay Inslee’s latest expensive proposal to fix the state’s never-ending homeless problem, just a mile or two away there is a clear example of one approach which helps lift people out of homelessness and another example which has kept people living in the cruel...
In a year-end poll conducted by Project42, homelessness remained the top issue among Washington State residents (followed closely by crime and inflation). Thus, after a decade of progressive policies, billions of tax dollars spent, and a massive increase in the homelessness bureaucracy, these poll results are yet another indicator that our state’s homeless situation is...
Clearly Seattle is at a very important crossroad and the nine members of the city council will decide which road the city takes.
Many naysayers said it couldn’t be done. But this week Seattle voters made their voices heard when/where it matters most – the ballot box. Residents completed an unprecedented turnover of the city council where likely only one of the nine city councilmembers who voted on the disastrous 2020 & 2021 “defund the police” measures will...
We are now within hours of the 2023 voting deadline where more than 3,000 local races and 128 city and county initiatives will be determined by less than half of Washington State’s 4.8 million eligible voters. Ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 7, or be deposited in one of the 600 ballot drop boxes...
Government officials in our state continue to demand even more taxpayer money to battle the region’s homelessness problem. Yet, while billions and billions of dollars have been spent on the issue, the problem continues to get worse. At the same time, the size and cost of all levels of government have dramatically increased in...
The Discovery Institute’s Fix Homelessness Project has incredible timing. Just hours before the think tank was to release its in-depth report on the King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s (KCRHA) “Partnership for Zero” (PfZ) program, it was announced that the publicly/privately funded effort is being shut down. Like nearly all other KCRHA efforts, the PfZ...
Over the past several months, we have been speaking out against King County’s support of a homelessness plan that was too expensive, misguided, and doomed to fail. We have worked to inform citizens that the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, which had asked for $11.8 billion to put their proposal into action, was tragically incompetent....
The Seattle Times has a good question – what’s the point of the Regional Homlessness Authority? Columnist Danny Westneat asked “Should we keep this agency at all?” Given their track record of spending millions up on millions of taxpayer dollars with no results, we’ve been wondering the same thing. Especially as they’re now asking for billions,...
With late payments and unsigned contracts to non-profit social service organizations piling up, The King County Regional Homelessness Authority is making it even harder for local organizations to serve the populations they were created to help. An article in The Seattle Times says these organizations are being forced to take on credit card debt or...
The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) shocked nearly everyone earlier this year when its leaders demanded $11.8 billion to address the county’s homelessness crisis and budgeted very little of the funds to help those suffering from addiction or mental illness. This outlandish request has been criticized by people across the political spectrum, has led...
Mayor Bruce Harrell has announced a new plan to revive downtown Seattle. This includes a plan to tackle homelessness which gets to root issues like addictions, unlike previous plans which suggested increased spending and housing-first solutions. “I believe that the fentanyl crisis on our streets is causing death and disorder, and I can’t mince words...