By KAIRIE PIERCE We need you! The Washington State Labor Council, the M.L. King, Jr. County Labor Council, and the Community and Technical Colleges of Washington...
By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 16, 2013) — A friend of mine ordered a sandwich two weeks ago and by the following Saturday was down with the...
By PRAMILA JAYAPAL (Second of a two-part column. See the first.) Imagine that you have just arrived in your new country. It’s cold here and your...
By PRAMILA JAYAPAL (First of a two-part column.) When I first moved to Washington state in 1990, I was one of about 322,000 immigrant (or foreign-born)...
By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 4, 2013) — When my kids got their first jobs, I was happy that we in Washington had voted for a decent...
This column originally appeared in the (Centralia) Chronicle. By JEFF JOHNSON (Dec. 17, 2012) — One out of four of Lewis County’s 76,000 residents collect Social...
By DAVID GROVES (Dec. 13, 2012) — “Governing from the middle, governing from the center, that’s what the citizens in this state expect,” said erstwhile Democratic...
By JEFF JOHNSON (Dec. 12, 2012) — The week after Thanksgiving I was in Washington, D.C. lobbying our Congressional delegation on the so-called fiscal cliff. The...
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 5, 2012) — Every day we hear about the “fiscal cliff.” But don’t be scared, because in reality it’s a fiction of...
By LYNNE DODSON (Nov. 15, 2012) — Tired of trade agreements that serve only multinational corporations and not workers and local businesses? Tired of trade agreements...