Light Rail

That's right folks, the ballot measure that you thought you turned down is reappearing this year, because the people who brought you last year's package have heard your concerns and cut out both the roads and anything south of Seattle.

A visit from national League of Conservation Voters president Gene Karpinski is expected next week. Sources hope he can talk some sense into the Washington environmental movement.  read more »

Sound Transit is hard at work trying to convince King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties to expand light rail by ballot measure in 2008 - they've hired not one but two public relations firms to push poll the issue, while willfully ignoring the results of last year's Proposition 1.  read more »

Pierce County Executive and State Attorney General candidate John Ladenburg (D-Tacoma) told the TNT's Political Buzz today that, as a member of the Sound Transit board, he is considering withholding a ballot initiative to bring light rail to Tacoma. The last plan, an $18 billion roads-and-transit proposal for King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties, failed at the ballot box.