She is following his lead, don't insult him like that. He has been pushing a higher minimum wage for a while now. And still not quite he not proposing $15.

Is Ettl prepared to defend cries of ignorance? Because Yakima city is acting in a very ignorant manner about this whole thing.

In Philly news, Goldy, Philadelphia Gas Works was bought by UIL Holdings in order to net $424M for the city's ailing pension fund.

But... but... but they negotiated a "rate freeze" (and some other guarantees) for three years, which probably means they can't fall either, even though gas prices are on the skids.

Goldy, "He doesn't have a leg to stand on. I am totally uninterested in the murder trial of double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius that started today, but I just wanted to type that pun."

Hmmm, I think you should have kept that pun to yourself. Sure, the subject murdered (to an as yet determined degree) somebody, but I'm pretty sure he isn't the only person that is a double-amputee.

I don't know, just guessing.

Snakes can eat crocodiles!

"Of course they are. Despite banning the growing, manufacturing, and selling of marijuana within its borders, the Yakima City Council is still seeking a share of state pot revenues. "I'm prepared to defend cries of hypocrisy from now until whenever," said hypocritical council member Dave Ettl."

Red county "takers" on the loose.

I sent an email to the bill sponsor a couple weeks ago questioning the obvious hypocrisy. I suggested the taxes should be appropriated back to the same percentage that a jurisdiction contributes.

@4 -- settle down.

Here is one of three bills, one in the Senate, there were two others in the House, that were intended to send weed proceeds to local jurisdictions to pay for more cops.

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.…

There were a few bills that spread it to fire districts, too.

It's no big surprise that the usual suspects are not going to want to participate in contributing to the fund, but they are first in line with their hands out.

@1,

I don't doubt it's something he'd been calling for, but I never saw the calls gain any traction until just recently. I'm quite confident that she had a prominent role in bringing the idea to the forefront.

@8, hypocrisy for some, little American flags for everybody else.

Alleged murder should not be packaged as entertainment. Only a sick society could gossip about something like that.

There were some nice speeches at the Oscars last night. It seemed more human, and less ego-driven, Hollywood politics. The clips on Kimmel were amazing.

Yakima was and is a state revenue welfare queen. Why should it change?

Oh sure, if a gun kills somebody, blame the gun,

When a knife kills 29 people and injures another 100, blame the human.

Hypocrite.

Wait, Goldy is uninterested in the Pistorius trial? That surprises me. I would have thought, based on his frequent posts about "accidental" shootings in the States, that trial of a man who "accidentally" shot his girlfriend in another country would at least be mildly interesting as a little compare-and-contrast exercise.

I would be surprised if the President had ever even heard of Kshama Sawant. Most people on the east coast are surprised to encounter the concept of time zones. Say Seattle and they're likely to recollect Sacramento or Santa Fe or some other troublesome western outpost.

A lot of East-Coasters frequent the Slog.
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Zombie article lulz... Coroner was named "Dexter."