Kudos for Mr. Mariconda! Having looked at North Jersey, the land of high taxes, in my rear mirror 40 years ago, I concur with his assessment of individual homeowners, many businesses and the city.

As for our 'esteemed' Mayor and his self-anointed 'B'; well, that is a clear case of grade inflation and insult to all those hard working students in the Seattle School System.

This is just another failure on the part of our city leadership in the last seven years. I hope the citizens of Seattle remember these failures come November.

Robert Callard

West Seattle