Just What the State Need: Shameful!


Source: ShiftWA.org 

Should the state recategorize 12-step meetings to allow in-person meetings to resume? Governor Inslee’s decision to prohibit in-person Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step meetings from occurring has forced recovery meetings to take place on Zoom and has caused meeting attendance to plummet. At the same time, both alcohol and marijuana sales are at record levels.  Yet, if 12-step programs were recategorized as “faith-based” instead of “group counseling,” many of the groups could resume meeting in-person. (Shift Article)

The Yakima Herald called Employment Security Department actions “shameful,” as it fails to provide information to the Washington State Auditor’s office, which is investigating the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by foreign criminals and the department’s slow response to provide unemployment benefits to deserving Washington residents. The Herald was specifically critical of Governor Inslee’s ESD Commissioner Suzi LeVine for her attempts to hinder the investigation as she demanded investigators alter their process in obtaining required information. The editorial states, “It makes no sense whatsoever to hinder those audits. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost and Washingtonians who are suffering from joblessness are not getting the services they need and deserve.” Sounds almost like Shift there. (Yakima Herald)

Governor Inslee’s Washington Recovery Group, the collection of state agencies assigned to “coordinate the state’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery activities and set priorities that strengthen the resiliency of our state and all Washingtonians” has met only once since mid-October. The group is not scheduled to meet again until after the new year. Apparently, the state’s recovery from the pandemic is not a priority for the governor, especially when he is so focused on obtaining one of the few remaining jobs in the Biden Administration. (Office of Financial Management)

Washington State cannabis sales are up over 20% each month during the pandemic compared to last year. Last May sales were 43.8% higher than they were in 2019, and August sales were 41% greater than last year. One of the reasons for the increased sales was the unexpected income many people received from the federal stimulus package which arrived just as Washington residents were ordered to stay home by Governor Inslee. (Everett Herald)

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