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Is tolerated freedom really freedom at all?

March 21, 2017 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

caption id="attachment_44937" align="alignright" width="300" Seattleite begs a local bureaucrat for permission to use his own stuff./caption More and more, we have to receive government permission to exercise basic rights. This subverts a fundamental notion of liberty: first comes freedom, then comes government to secure that freedom. We've beg ...

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Seattle’s Grand Bargain–a bargain for whom?

July 05, 2016 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

  caption id="attachment_42251" align="alignright" width="300" Seattle's famous tent cities might have fewer occupants if the City let up its stranglehold on development/caption The City of Seattle has proposed "The Grand Bargain" to fix its affordable housing crisis. The epic title doesn't meet expectations. "The Grand Bargain" wou ...