We’ve kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.

The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional funds she is proposing will accelerate some of the highest priority actions on the ground,...

It’s been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning a corner here.

You start to put them all together and … add up what we already are spending, you’re going to find it’s fairly significant.

People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren’t. We haven’t gotten the message across.