When the cap-and-trade gas tax was passed, Gov. Jay Inslee said Washingtonians wouldn’t feel a price increase, despite widespread predictions to the contrary. Of course, those predictions turned out to be correct. This tax is not just raising the price of filing our gas tanks, it is also making home energy more expensive. But Gov....
The Democratic mayor of Everett announced the city will be hiring more police officers, meanwhile the department is actively enforcing its new drug possession ordinance. Brandi Kruse has more on the unDivided Podcast.
Hundreds of people lined up to take advantage of lower gas prices at an event put on by Future 42 last week. On the unDivided Podcast, Brandi Kruse says the event illustrates how Governor Jay Inslee’s Carbon tax is hurting the working class.
On Wednesday, Sept. 13, Future 42, in partnership with Americans for Prosperity-Washington, rolled back the price of gasoline to $3.82, the national average for a gallon of gas, at Jackson’s Shell station in Kent. Just before the event, the price of gas was $5.17. People were waiting in line for an hour before the event...
Future 42 and AFP rolled back gas prices to highlight Washington’s tax and cap and trade policies and 200 people filled up their tanks in just two hours as gas dropped from $5.17 to $3.82
After the release of a University of Washington study showing 100% of airborne samples taken from inside buses and trains showed traces of Methamphetamine, King County Metro insisted that transit is still safe for riders and drivers. Brandi Kruse discussed the issue on the unDivided Podcast.
Washington state continues to have some of the highest gas prices in the nation, due in part to Governor Inslee’s carbon program. To illustrate just how much lower gas is elsewhere in the country, Simon Sefzik with Future 42 says they will be dropping the price at the pump at a station in Kent. He...
Future 42 and AFP will roll back gas prices to $3.82 to highlight Washington’s tax and cap and trade policies
When Gov. Jay Inslee was working to pass his cap-and-trade gas tax, he said the cost to consumers would be negligible – despite experts predicting otherwise. Now that those predictions have come to pass, he’s trying to blame everyone but himself. Unfortunately for him, it’s hard to pass the buck when even his allies agree the...
When Progressive publication Crosscut asked its readers to weigh in on the state’s high gas prices, even some in support of the Carbon program that led to the increases say the poor are unfairly shouldering the burden. Brandi Kruse has more on the unDivided Podcast.
As our state experiences breakdowns across the criminal justice system, it will take politicians and members of the press acknowledging hard truths before we can start digging our communities out of the crime crisis. Brandi Kruse has more on the unDivided Podcast.
Even after restrictions on police pursuits were loosened, there are still roadblocks when it comes to accountability for criminals. Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders joined Brandi Kruse on the unDivided Podcast to discuss the release of a car thief who took deputies on a high speed chase after committing a hit-and-run.
The seven 2023 Seattle City Council races have received plenty of attention, as voters will decide this fall who will replace the four councilmembers who chose not to run for re-election, as well as the fate of three city councilmembers who must defend their support for the council’s anti-police budgets and failed homelessness policies during...
Despite having ample time, the Seattle City Council has failed to adopt a common sense proposal that would give City Attorney Ann Davison power to prosecute drug cases. As Brandi Kruse explains on the unDivided Podcast, that means Seattle will be unable to enforce a new state law making drug possession a gross misdemeanor.