'Socialism for the Wealthy
Capitalism for the rest.'

well that's OK
at least it ain't
Progressivism.

@1: wow you're already tiresome. that was fast.

@1: One million net residents last year? The linked article says 114,000, which is .3% of California's nearly 40 million resident population.

"Millions set to lose Medicaid coverage next year"

Will neglected to mention: (1) this same legislation increases ACA funding and expands Medicaid coverage for children, and (2) the only people who will lose Medicaid coverage are those who are not eligible for the program anyway. And of course, the emergency measures enacted in response to the pandemic were never expected to last indefinitely: everyone knew they would go away within a few years. Our healthcare system is still deeply flawed, but this is about the best anyone could reasonably hope for out of Congress.

Not to mention that House seats (and therefore electoral votes) won’t be reapportioned until after the 2030 census for the 2032 election.

@6,

@1 is making bizarre (California is "social engineering" people?!?) and unsubstantiated claims, while failing to provide any links to support them (the first returned hit upon googling "university rankings" is a US News report that shows California with five of the top 30 institutions in the country located there, thus rendering his claim that the system is in a "long slow decline" seemingly quite ridiculous.) If you're gonna defend that moron, then the impetus is on you & him to provide something to back up the content of the post.

Also, you're an idiot.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities if you're interested in checking out said rankings

I admire Will's drive and passion in the causes he writes about, but as an attorney he should have a paramount passion for accuracy.

@14 you’re assuming his skewing of facts is an error or sloppy work on his part. I’ve seen enough of his writing to say he knows exactly what he is doing and absolutely has intent to mislead readers to predetermined outcomes. We’re taking about NTK’s PR rep after all. Obfuscation and misdirection are core strategies.

“3,600 more people left the state than moved here from elsewhere from July 1, 2021 to July 1 of this year. While the data doesn't capture where they went,”

My family and I moved first to Burlington, Vermont, then to upstate New York. Annual heavy wildfire smoke and triple-digit temperatures drove us out of Seattle, along with the declining value proposition of stuffing ever-more persons into Seattle with no plan or even thought of how to address the resultant problems. Shutting down the homeless-industrial complex, building even more subsidized housing for residents who actually work in Seattle, and fixing the state’s regressive taxation are all being ignored by the local and state-level politicians who helped to create those problems, forcing voters to spend several more election cycles clearing out those failed politicians before the obvious fixes to those obvious problems can be applied. As noted @17, the Stranger does everything it possibly can to misinform readers about these problems, monkeywrenching Seattle’s civic dialog to the maximum extent it can, and refusing to identify, let alone investigate, the real sources of problems.

@1 Down, lil MAGAt, down. Your boasted red wave projection in November wasn't even enough to fill a squirt gun, let alone piss you out a free beer.

@6: How's your head injury? Please put down the bong and get medical attention.

@12 mike blob: +1 Thank you for beating me to it.

I already feel sorry in advance for everyone living out in Whatcom County anywhere near the Nooksack River, everyone in Skagit County residing anywhere along the Skagit and Sauk Rivers, and everyone in Snohomish County living anywhere close to the Stillaguamish River. Atmospheric rivers are a nightmare, especially for farmers.
One year, one month, and two weeks later, I still can't unsee the images of the border towns of Sumas, WA, USA, and Abbotsford, B.C., Canada and surrounding farmland under water. Winter's a bitch now thanks to human-made climate change and global warming.

So Seattle Times FYI Guy Gene Balk is reporting a mass exodus from Washington State as well as from California? I can see some obvious reasons as to why:
1. Unaffordability of housing, largely due to the rise in the tech communities in King County, including Redmond, Kirkland, and Bellevue, leaving Seattle and surrounding communities vulnerable to only the filthy stinking rich
2. A drop in anything high paying (i.e.: tech jobs), and the multitude of non-union wage "jobs" available won't cover the skyrocketing cost of living on the West Coast
3. A sharp rise in homelessness (from loss of work, unaddressed mental health issues, drug use and dealing)
4. Nobody can get anywhere anymore on our streets, roads, and freeways because of the influx of way too many people from all over, too fast, and housing and infrastructure issues haven't been sufficiently addressed to handle so high a population explosion in the greater Puget Sound region, too many idiots glued to their Dumb phones aren't paying attention to traffic, and possibly....
5. A number of people among those leaving took note of the PNW being long overdue for The Big One and decided not to risk losing everything in what will likely go down as the worst of national disasters in U.S. history when it happens

YIKES look at the long lines at Southwest Airlines! International flights must have really been a bitch.

There's no way I'm going out on New Year's Eve. I'm very grateful to have my beloved VW safely garaged during the fall and winter months. There are already too many idiots on the roads in good driving conditions without throwing a bunch of multi-car pileup prone drunks way past the DUI level into the mix. Local law enforcement is going to have fun with Auld Lang Syne landing on a Saturday night.

tensorna @18: "My family and I moved first to Burlington, Vermont, then to upstate New York. Annual heavy wildfire smoke and triple-digit temperatures drove us out of Seattle, along with..."

I find this an interesting comment, if only because I'm only used to Seattle being a place where climate refugees MOVE, not a place that people are moving away FROM as climate refugees. Of course, people are entitled to move for whatever reasons they want to move; people are entitled to their own perceptions. Just, I know that for myself, even with the wildfire smoke, I'm thankful to be in Seattle as opposed to just about any other place in the contiguous 48 when it comes to facing the impacts of climate change.

"despite the doofus's attorneys attempting to argue that their client was simply too incompetent to ever succeed at his Wile E. Coyote-style insurrection attempt": These brownshirt wannabes are indeed very stupid. Still, you have to know you're desperate when your defense is that you're too dumb to have done the crime.

@4: tiresome, not tiring.

@6: i'm not under any obligation to fact check a gish gallop.

@5 Southwest is going to lose a large sum of money this week. The refunds they’re dishing out plus the cost of reuniting people with bags and trying to get their crews and planes back into position is expensive. They’re also offering reimbursement for those who book flights on other airlines since they don’t interline with anyone. I saw an estimate earlier that they’ve already lost $500 million this week.

@12 Stanford, Cal Tech, and USC are private schools.

The UC system used to be better than it is now, especially outside the flagship institutions, but the bulk of the decline happened decades ago, as part of the fallout from prop 13 in 1978.

What @1 is trying to do here is to take a problem that was caused by a republican-led tax revolt choking off university funding, and then turn around and blame it on the supposed "greed" of the low-level employees who have borne the brunt of the ensuing budget crunch.

@26 When was the UC system better than it is now? I graduated from UCLA in 1990. Fat fucking chance I'd be able to even get in now. Currently six of the top 10 public universities are UC schools. 30 years ago there were probably just two.

I do agree with your second point. UC schools are far less affordable thanks to Prop 13 and other anti-tax measures. My parents went for free in the 60s.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

@26 I suppose I just don't exclude debt burden when I think about the quality of a college education, and I suspect schools have more competitive entry today mainly because universities, since the '70s, have not expanded to keep up with demographics (the millennial baby boomlet plus a gradually increasing percentage of high school students considering college).

The widening divide today isn't really between rankings of UC vs other state schools, it's between the budget constraints of public vs. private universities.

@28 Remind us again what kinds of events prompt that "vague sense of public outrage, discomfort, or violation of some ill-defined norm."

@25 98102CH: That's corporate greed for you. You'd think .00000000001%ers would have learned by now. The only way to hit 'em where it hurts anymore is to take all their ill gotten money away.

@23: I gave my reasons for leaving; you did not give your reasons for believing you should be, “thankful to be in Seattle as opposed to just about any other place in the contiguous 48 when it comes to facing the impacts of climate change.” I find your omission telling.

Global warming will bring more and heavier rain to Puget Sound. Look at what that, combined with a king tide (the latter a supremely predictable event) has done to South Park. Seattle must now reach out to the feds for help with one of its smallest neighborhoods. That does not sound like Seattle has done a good job of preparing for challenges ahead.

Auntie Griz reminded us @19: at any moment, Puget Sound could experience a huge seismic event. One of my Seattle employers had us train for a subduction quake, at force nine and of three minutes’ duration, centered on Neah Bay. Now have that event strike after a long Spring of chronic heavy rains, and there might be little left standing in Seattle.

I hope you have made the correct decision in your case, as I believe I have made the correct decision in mine, and I thank you for your thoughtful, respectful dialog.