Washington state legislature passed a bill to fund hundreds of transporation projects, funded by a $.03-.09/gallon gas tax. In case you haven’t ever visited Washington state, we have some of the worst traffic ever, and of the major cities I’ve visited recently, some of the hardest to use public transit (it’s mostly centralized in Seattle itself, which isn’t all that big a place to be honest, IMO).
In comes the initiative process to try and undo the legislature’s work again. I-912 was created to undo the gas tax increase, and then effectively halt all of those projects it would have funded.
I strongly believe a gas tax is the way to fund transportation projects. It’s a pretty effective way to charge people for the use of roads, without the overhead and extra expense of a toll system, and it is pretty clear we need road repairs. Cutting existing taxes does not seem to be the way to go if we want these repairs and upgrades to ever happen. If we cut this, we’ll only hurt ourselves. It’s not as though the legislature will suddenly find billions of dollars somewhere that they can instantly allocate to road projects.
(Edited: How embarassing. I mixed up I-901 with I-912. I’m voting “no” on both but that’s no excuse.)
October 20th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Ack! Your journal’s gone back to the crappy WordPress default!
October 20th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Yeah. There were some bugs* with the old theme which finally got to me, so I had to ditch it. It’s totally gone, except on some backups somewhere. I’m going to come up with something new tonight.
I’m going to change it to WP Classic for now.
* Specifically, when you viewed a posting with little content, the sidebar would write over the footer and the footer wouldn’t actually be at the end of the page.
October 20th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Looks good, but the font is tiny again! Waaah! Fix it dpk!
I know the Stranger kept harping on the Governor to make a statement about I-912 and her pressmonkey kept evading them. It was sad.
October 20th, 2005 at 10:50 pm
I think the post font size is OK (it’s the same size as on your site), but I’ll try to make the other fonts larger. CSS is nice and all, but when you work with someone else’s CSS that isn’t documented, shit like #menu ul ul ul.children is just hard to parse.
Looks like I won’t get to creating a theme tonight, got caught up with grocery shopping for a few hours instead.