Posts by Bill Lyne

The last time we spoke of Representative Reuven Carlyle here at the blog, we were calling one of his ideas the dumbest thing we’d heard in a long time. So we’re filled with a mixture of relief, humility, and giddy excitement as we report that he made a big comeback this week. On Tuesday Representative…

Down in Olympia, the 2011 legislative session is firmly underway. All the new people have learned the dress code and found the bathrooms, committee hearings have begun to fill the airwaves of TVW, and bills have begun to drop like rain. We’re still a long way from the end game of the 2011-13 budget, so there’s plenty of…

One of the great things about living in Washington is that we have license to be incredibly snotty about all things California. Their earthquakes are worse than ours, their vapid Hollywood culture makes Seattle look positively European, everything is more expensive there, and we all know that everyone there secretly wants to move here. And…