News For Reasonable People

A Portland city hall staffer takes a homeless woman into his home, then abandons her at a remote state park at 2 AM with no tent, no sleeping bag, and a wheelchair. What could possibly go wrong? This bizarre story has all the hallmarks of Portland's signature blend of virtue signaling and catastrophically bad judgment. We dive into the twisted tale of a $131,000-a-year political aide who thought bringing a mentally ill homeless...

California just proposed a "one-time" 5% wealth tax on billionaires to cover $30 billion in federal funding cuts - because what could possibly go wrong? We break down how desperate California has become, targeting the very people who pay 40-50% of their taxes while ignoring the real spending problems like funding illegal immigrants and bloated bureaucracy.Meanwhile, we're seeing the same pattern play out in Seattle wh...

Seattle just learned what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you – and it's not pretty. Amazon's latest layoffs hit Seattle hardest, with 1,887 out of 2,300 Washington state cuts coming from the Emerald City. Coincidence? Not when you're slapping your biggest employer with a 2.5% payroll tax while they're already planning their escape to business-friendly Bellevue.We break down how Seattle's anti-business...

Here we go again - Portland's commercial real estate dumpster fire claims another victim as PAC West Center sells for $55.7 million, a fraction of its 2007 purchase price of $161.5 million. What did they expect when you decriminalize hard drugs, defund police, and let homeless camps turn your downtown into a post-apocalyptic nightmare? We break down how progressive policies destroyed billions in tax revenue, why businesses refu...

Here we go again! Progressive cities are hemorrhaging BILLIONS as retail crime explodes 93% since 2019, yet they keep telling us crime is down. Right. New York tourism tanks by $4 billion while San Francisco's downtown sits at a staggering 34.8% vacancy rate. But hey, let's double down on the same failed policies!We're diving into the real cost of soft-on-crime leadership - from Seattle's $9 billion budget managed b...

Seattle's about to elect a mayor who gets $2,200 a month from mommy and daddy for daycare while running on a "working class" platform - you can't make this stuff up! Katie Wilson, socialist candidate leading in polls, has never held a substantial job, run a business, or managed a payroll, yet wants to oversee Seattle's $9 billion budget and 41 departments. Meanwhile, her Transit Writers Union has LOST money fo...

Seattle's brilliant solution to grocery stores fleeing due to rampant shoplifting? Force them to let competitors move in! Because nothing says "smart business policy" like watching Kroger shut down citing theft, safety issues, and hostile regulations, then demanding they can't block competition from opening in the same crime-ridden location. We dive into Seattle's latest legislative masterpiece that tackles fo...

Seattle's about to elect a straight-up socialist mayor who can't even afford to live in the city she wants to run – and gets $2,200 monthly from her parents at age 43. What could go wrong? We dive deep into Katie Wilson's housing plan that promises to solve Seattle's sky-high rents with the same progressive policies that created the crisis in the first place. She wants billion-dollar bonds, rent caps, and more red t...

Welcome to the perfect storm of socialist incompetence meets basic economics! Portland's city council just got a harsh lesson when their iconic Big Pink building sold for $45 million – down from $373 million in 2015. That's a 88% discount that would make Black Friday shoppers weep with envy.We break down how Portland's "woke" leadership created a downtown wasteland where businesses board up windows faster than...

So Seattle's International District has become such a lawless nightmare that a Little Saigon property owner is suing the city for $30 million – and honestly, he's got a solid case. We're talking about an open-air drug market where people are literally dying on the streets while cops just drive by, businesses are shuttered, and a $21 million property sale collapsed because no developer wants to touch this chaos. Meanwhil...

Remember Seattle's glorious "Summer of Love"? Well, here's what actually happened when city officials abandoned an entire police precinct and told cops to stand down. New video evidence reveals the chaos that led to two black teenagers being gunned down by the very activists who claimed to protect black lives - and the city's desperate attempt to cover it up.We break down the timeline of how CHOP security (aka...

Portland's brilliant new solution to their homeless crisis? Just ship them out of town and hope for the best! As usual, city leadership is avoiding the real problem while taxpayers foot the bill for another feel-good program that ignores reality. We dive into Portland's 'reunification' plan that aims to send 700 unhoused individuals back to family - because nothing says effective governance like making your problem ...

Portland's in chaos as usual, and where's Governor Tina Kotek? Off on a taxpayer-funded "trade mission" to South Korea and Japan while her state burns – literally. We've got three suspected arsons targeting Portland politicians in two years, FBI investigations into the Trail Blazers, nightly clashes at ICE facilities, and property crime rates second only to Memphis nationwide. Meanwhile, city leaders insist th...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson thinks he can fix a $1.2 billion deficit with... a yacht tax and charging social media companies 50 cents per user? As usual, when progressive policies create massive budget holes, the solution is always the same: tax the rich until they flee to Florida! Johnson's brilliant plan includes taxing Amazon (hello, Bellevue relocation), slapping fees on yacht owners, and even borrowing money to pay city ...

Here we go again with LA City Council's latest stroke of genius - nearly doubling construction worker minimum wages from $18 to $32.35 an hour while simultaneously crying about a housing shortage. Is anyone surprised that the same city council members who've never run a business think they can magically solve housing costs by making it twice as expensive to build? This brilliant plan covers mid-sized apartment buildings (10+ units,...

California's getting exactly what it wanted – and now Gruesome Newsom is shocked that gas prices are about to skyrocket again. Valero just confirmed they're shutting down their Benicia refinery after failed talks with state officials, because surprise – you can't virtue signal your way out of basic economics.We break down how California's 20-year crusade against fossil fuels created this mess, why their desperate se...

California's infinite wisdom strikes again! They've handed out 62,000 commercial driver's licenses to people whose legal status couldn't be verified – because nothing says "road safety" like putting someone behind an 18-wheeler when you don't know if they're here legally, speak English, or can even read a stop sign. What could go wrong?We dive into the deadly consequences of sanctuary state policie...

Well, well, well - turns out Antifa isn't just throwing molotov cocktails at federal buildings anymore. They've gone professional and infiltrated Seattle's entire homeless industrial complex! A damning News Nation investigation reveals what locals have been screaming about for years: the same black-masked militants disrupting sweeps are the ones working inside the nonprofits supposedly helping the homeless. These chaos-...

Twenty-five break-ins since 2020 at one Seattle restaurant. TWENTY-FIVE. What's the owner's brilliant strategy? Keep calling city officials who can't help him while bleeding six figures in repairs and security upgrades. Meanwhile, Seattle voters just picked a 43-year-old socialist whose parents send her $2,200 monthly for daycare to potentially run the city. You can't make this stuff up.We break down how progressive...