In February 2017 – that’s nearly 7 years ago – I asked a question to then-Seattle Mayor Ed Murray that I still think about to this day.
He was holding a big news conference – on a proposed $275 million property tax increase to pay for housing the homeless.
He was surrounded by supporters of the idea.
I knew I would be asking simple but potentially hostile questions in that atmosphere.
I asked if Seattle is too compassionate – and how much is too much to spend on homelessness.
Two years earlier in 2015, Murray declared a homelessness emergency in the city.
Murray gave me one of his famous
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