True, China can shop in other places for coal for its power plants, if Washington denies a coal port in Bellingham. But if we make the price of reliable coal cheaper, China will want to buy more and more coal and build more and more coal-fired plants.
A look at the budget's changes over decades shows much bigger numbers but not as big as you might think. And these numbers reflect shifting public values, demographic shifts, federal programs, and bipartisan agreement over the nature of the growth.
Dialogue Direct, a for-profit company that solicits on public streets for charities, aggressively engages pedestrians in downtown Seattle. City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen has just about had it with a "face-to-face" approach that is generating complaints.