By DON ORANGE The Association of Washington Business (AWB), our state’s Chamber of Commerce, is fighting to eliminate industry regulations! Not exactly a “man bites dog”...
By JAMES GREGORY The Great Recession has been accompanied by a great silence. We read statistics about the unemployed but don’t see faces or hear voices of...
By JOHN BURBANK Are you saving for your retirement? If you are working, you are. You put 4.1% of your paycheck into Social Security, through the...
By REP. CHRIS REYKDAL It began like any other cut-off afternoon in Olympia complete with legislators, lobbyists, and staff scrambling to ensure that priority bills do,...
By SEN. NICK HARPER The life-blood of democracy is transparency. Transparency is the only way in which the democratic process can truly be representative of the...
By SEN. MARALYN CHASE The Innovation Economy thrives on exporting products made in Washington by advanced manufacturing firms staffed by the most highly paid and highly...
By JOHN BURBANK There’s no other way to say it: health coverage for new employees is dismal in Washington. Only a little over half of Washington...
By STEVE ISENHART and JEFF JOHNSON The timing is right for the Legislature to pass a proposal to build valuable infrastructure projects now at cut-rate prices...
By JO ANN PYLE (Jan. 20, 2012) — Who’s that man or woman you see in your neighborhood six days a week? It’s your letter carrier....
By JOHN BURBANK Back in the 1960s, there was a comic strip named Pogo. One of the most insightful strips was a distilled discussion of human...