Washington State's Department of Ecology discovered their cap-and-trade emissions numbers were off by a staggering 86% — and were ready to issue a correction. Governor Bob Ferguson's office said no. Axios is now reporting that Ferguson's team sat on that correction for weeks, raising serious questions about why a governor who tightly controls state communications decided the public could just wait.The error isn't trivial. The Climate Commitment Act's entire policy premise rests on accurate emissions data — and Washington drivers have been paying some of the highest gas prices in the nation tied directly to those projections. When it took a Washington Policy Center analyst flagging that the math simply doesn't math to surface this, that's not a communications hiccup. That's an executive-level transparency failure with a real cost to every driver at the pump.Sean draws a pointed parallel to the Bite of Seattle shooting incident, where authorities waited five hours to warn the public about an active shooter — reportedly while holding for dignitaries to clear the venue. Two separate delays, same instinct: control the narrative first, inform the public second. Whether it's a murderer on the loose or an 86% error in your marquee climate law, the pattern around Big Bob is getting hard to ignore.Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that cuts through the noise — and hit the notification bell so you never miss a scoop.#NFRP #BobFerguson #WashingtonState𝗚𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘+ 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/🛍️ 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/💬 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 our 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY👍🏼 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗛 that 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 button & 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Seattle just posted the steepest drop in pending home sales of any major market in the country — down 15% — and the cause isn't just interest rates. Amazon and Microsoft layoffs are freezing buyers in place, workers clinging to sub-3% mortgages they refuse to surrender, while the employer exodus from Bellevue accelerates quarter by quarter. The Northwest Multiple Listing Service data is unambiguous: Seattle is leading the national slowdown, and the direction of travel is not good.The Detroit comparison is no longer rhetorical. Inventory is surging, price cuts in Seattle and Tacoma are among the fastest in America, and the progressive policy environment championed by figures like Katie Wilson keeps compounding the structural rot. The millionaire tax, a degraded public safety environment, and a systematically hostile business climate are doing exactly what basic economics predicts — pushing capital and employers toward Texas, Florida, and anywhere else that will have them.One former Amazon exec is already sending Seattle a pointed message, moving his startup's headquarters to Texas with a few notes for the city he's leaving behind. For sellers still holding out on overpriced listings, the advice is simple and brutal: cut the price now or take it off the market and try again next spring. The years of effortless multiple-offer weekends are over.Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily commentary on Pacific Northwest politics and the underreported stories shaping the region.#NFRP #Seattle #SeattleHousing𝗚𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘+ 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/🛍️ 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/💬 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 our 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY👍🏼 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗛 that 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 button & 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

New video evidence in the killing of Antonio Mays Jr. at Seattle's CHOP protest zone tells a completely different story than what city officials and protest leaders put out in 2020. A meticulous NPR investigation reconstructs the night shot by shot — and what it finds is damning.The Jeep Antonio was riding in never fired first. Armed CHOP security opened fire on the occupants before a single round came from inside the vehicle. What followed was deliberate: phones wiped, witnesses scattered, and a city leadership that decided this one was not worth pursuing. Six years later, no charges. Five Seattle police chiefs have come and gone since CHOP, and Antonio Mays Jr. still has no justice.Katie Wilson and the protest leadership built a no-cop zone with zero accountability structure and nobody in charge. That power vacuum killed a teenager. The city then handed them the exit ramp — and the cover-up has held long enough that most people have forgotten the name Antonio Mays Jr. This new footage makes forgetting a lot harder.Subscribe to @reasonablenews and hit the notification bell — new episodes every weekday.#NFRP #Seattle #CHOP𝗚𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘+ 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/🛍️ 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/💬 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 our 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY👍🏼 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗛 that 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 button & 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Bowtech, the compound bow manufacturer that called Eugene home for 27 years, is shutting down Oregon operations and consolidating to Houston. It's another clean data point in the pattern Tina Kotek refuses to acknowledge: Oregon's anti-business climate doesn't just slow growth, it ends legacies.

The Grants Pass Tribune piece that broke this story is notable for what it doesn't say — no tearful farewell press release, no "we loved being here." Just a phased shutdown, Texas consolidation, and jobs gone from a state that keeps handing them away. Bowtech joins Daimler Truck, Nike layoffs, and Campbell Soup plant closures in an accelerating exodus that Oregon's leadership keeps treating as unrelated events.

Sean digs into the anti-hunting bill from Rep. Drazen that put a regulatory target on archery-adjacent business, the corporate spin of "no factual basis" from executives too polite to say the quiet part loud, and what the raw job-loss numbers out of Oregon actually look like when you stop averaging them away.

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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is preparing to declare a public emergency after a massive fire — almost certainly set by a homeless encampment — gutted the eight-story Centennial Mills building along the Willamette River. The structure is now so compromised that passing Amtrak trains could trigger a full collapse, forcing the suspension of Seattle-to-Portland rail service indefinitely.

Sean breaks down exactly what the media won't say out loud: this is a direct consequence of Portland's homeless industrial complex. The building didn't just age into catastrophe — it was burned out. Bodies are believed to be in the rubble. Trains can't run. And the city's response is to declare an emergency as if this were an act of God rather than a predictable outcome of years of failed policy.

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Three people are dead, a shooter is still at large, and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's office waited five hours to brief the public — because dignitaries were coming. The "dignitaries" were Governor Bob Ferguson and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. That decision is now the subject of an OIG inquiry the council is using as a stall tactic while real answers sit on the table today.

The chaos doesn't stop there. With Police Chief Sean Barnes out of town, no one with authority stepped up to own the communication. The council is furious. A two-tier public and internal communication proposal is being floated. And the interim chief still can't tell the public whether a killer is on the streets. Sean compares Seattle's non-response directly to Oklahoma City's leadership after a similar crisis — the contrast is not flattering.

This is what happens when a city's leadership structure is built around political optics instead of public safety. The shooting exposed it. The five-hour gap confirmed it. And the OIG punt is just middle-school politics buying time for people who already know they got it wrong.

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Washington State lawmakers approved nearly $20 million in long-term care funding earmarked exclusively for immigrants — and the program will cover just 173 people. The original projection was roughly 1,200. That works out to over $115,000 per beneficiary, funded by a state that is already drowning in obligations it can't pay down.

Sean walks through the KUOW and Washington State Standard reporting on how this happened: a caregivers union lobbied hard for the funding, the math quietly fell apart, and now the budget line is on a glide path to $100 million per year. Meanwhile, actual Washington residents without long-term care coverage aren't in the conversation. The program didn't collapse — it just shrank to a rounding error while the price tag stayed full size.

The broader picture is a blue-state spending pattern Sean has covered before. California is sitting on $437 billion in outstanding bonds and obligations. Washington is running the same playbook — super-majority Democrats with no revenue problem and a very real spending problem. New York is already cutting similar programs. The costs that don't fit the budget eventually land on emergency rooms, and on everyone else paying into the system.

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Governor Gavin Newsom is pressuring California Attorney General Rob Bonta to abandon the state's lawsuit blocking the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger — and the motive is textbook political self-interest. With a 2028 presidential run in the works, Newsom can't afford to be the man who gutted Hollywood's job base. So instead of letting his own AG fight for consumers, he's demanding a quiet out-of-court settlement before the case goes to trial.

Bonta filed suit alongside a 12-state blue-state coalition arguing the merger harms competition and consumers. The DOJ already greenlit the deal. European regulators cleared it. The UK culture secretary waved it through. But Bonta pushed forward anyway — until the governor's office made the call. This is what happens when an attorney general's independence runs headfirst into one man's presidential calendar.

David Ellison's team has made the case that Hollywood's old model is already collapsing: less than 20% of viewer time goes to traditional content, YouTube now dominates, and streaming has rewritten the economics of the entire industry. Whether this merger helps or hurts consumers, Newsom's interference proves that in California, law enforcement answers to ambition first.

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The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee just voted 3-1 to redirect $250,000 away from Capitol Hill's vetted CCTV camera program — diverting the funds instead to community anti-violence initiatives and "safety ambassadors." This decision came down while Capitol Hill was logging fresh shooting incidents, including a gun battle near 11th and Pike and violence spilling out of a nightclub in the same corridor where the Bite of Seattle chaos unfolded days earlier.

Sean walks through the full picture: Mayor Harrell refusing to greenlight a camera system that already cleared a vetting process, Bob Kettle drawing a budget line in the sand, and activist Katie Wilson leading the push to swap surveillance for social programming in the exact neighborhood where gang members are actively shooting each other. The council's answer to a shooting surge is ambassadors, not arrests — and certainly not cameras.

The pattern is the same every time. Another study. Another commission. Another feel-good program. Never prosecution, never incarceration, never the tools that actually deter open violence. Seattle is what you get when progressive theory becomes city policy — and the residents of Capitol Hill are living with the results while city hall debates the optics of cameras.

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Portland's downtown is in freefall — and the desperation is now priced into broker commissions. Building owners are dangling up to $15 per square foot in incentives, compared to the normal $1–3, just to land any tenant willing to sign. The PAE Living Building is offering payouts of roughly $40,000 per deal. Others are throwing in Hawaii trips, Napa wine tours, and golf outings. Brokers are being bribed. The tenants still aren't coming.

The math tells you everything about the market. When you have to pay a Wolf of Wall Street-scale commission just to get someone in the door, there is no demand. Portland's political class handed the city a triple whammy — rampant drug use that chased workers off the streets, vandalism that gutted small businesses, and a tax and regulatory environment so hostile that companies simply left the state. The sustainability badge on the PAE Living Building doesn't impress anyone when the floor plates are empty.

The Trailblazers story in the background only underlines the trend. Tom Dundon's squeeze on the franchise is another anchor leaving a city that keeps bleeding businesses, teams, and taxpayers while legislators in Salem pile on vacancy fees and more red tape. Portland isn't in a slow decline — it's a controlled demolition with nobody at the controls.

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