Here's an idea. Can we have the Seattle City Council change the "Newspaper of Record" for Seattle from the Seattle Times to the Stranger? At least you guys on Slog know what they hell you are talking about...

We call them the tax-subsidized Suburban Times in working neighborhoods like Fremont and Ballard ...

If The Stranger is our official "Newspaper of Record," this city really is fucked. (Tongue firmly planted in cheek. Love you guys.)

Ryan Blethen is a sack of garbage.

Thanks Goldy. I love your Times bashing.

Well done, Goldy.

"The people know they have to live within their means and believe government should do the same."

Actually, No - people don't live within their means.

People don't save money to buy homes and cars, they take out loans to buy big-ticket items like those - often extending themselves far beyond their means.

The average American also carries huge amounts of consumer debt on credit cards at outrageously high interest rates.

In contrast, the State borrows money at rock-bottom interest rates and invests that money in things that pay long-term dividends - like education for its people, infrastructure for economic development, and social services for its most vulnerable that will only cost more if delayed.

If the Seattle Times is going to continue the meme that government should balance its books the way an average family does, they should at least get their facts straight.

Nice catch Goldy!!!

Stick it to em, sloppy bastards.

@7, I must say this is the first time I've noticed someone point this out (that I can remember). Thanks.

Yes, 7, I agree with 9: excellent points.

Fabulous.

More kudos, @7.

Ryan Blethen isn't the ed page editor anymore. It was actually better when he was; the Times actually produced some good editorials then.

Since SLOG will not support HB2100, you are all hypocrites.

@12: oops. Frank Blethen. All Blethens are scum, and always have been, from Alden on down.

"Subsidized early retirement" sounds an awful lot like a cost-cutting measure to get people to retire early and save on salary and benefits of full retirement.

Guess what, bozos, if you don't make early retirement attractive, then people won't elect to retire early and then you've gotta start laying them off (and paying severance packages).

I cancelled our Seattle Times subscription a few weeks ago and within a week, between missing sports information and lack of something to read at breakfast, the family was in full scale revolt. So, when the Times called two weeks later with a special offer, I was ready to listen. But first I had to tell the poor telemarketer that Blethen was a greedy lying propagandist. She responded that they had just gotten a new editor, from Minnesota(?), and that the paper was going to get thicker again and have more "good news." Anyway, I signed us back up and the family is happy again, although they had agreed with me that Blethen is a lying greedy propagandist.

Thanks Goldy for speaking truth to power. Corrupt and abusive power at that.