If you need a knee replaced or heart surgery, where’s the best place to go and how much will it cost? The short answer is simple: nobody knows. National health…
Shopping for health care would be easier under proposed law
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ASK MARY HELEN 2: Minimum Wage
Watch Rep. Mary Helen Roberts respond to a constituent email about increasing the minimum wage, House Bill 2672.
Driving-decrease programs saluted in WashPIRG report
Like many other schools around the country, Washington’s colleges and universities are working to cut student-driving to, from, and around campus. Innovative transportation programs advanced in many Washington higher-education institutions…
Joel Connelly post on the Reproductive Parity Act
Seattle PI writer Joel Connelly posted a great piece on the Reproductive Parity Act, which the House voted to approve yesterday. Rep. Gael Tarleton, D-Seattle, laid out the Reproductive Parity…
Education – a springboard to success
The US imprisons over 2.4 million people. According to a Pew study published in 2011, between 1973 and 2009, the nation’s prison population grew by 705%. We now imprison more…