Washington state has always worked to make our roadways more safe. We were early adopters of seat belt laws, drunk driving laws, and more recently, graduated drivers licensing. We were…
New tech will combat texting while driving
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Take it from Donna: Don’t let insurance companies trick you into paying more
Talking Points Memo, an online news site, reports on a troubling new occurrence in their piece “Special Investigation: How Insurers Are Hiding Obamacare Benefits from Customers”. Don’t have time to…
A healthy office means healthy workers
When people are healthier, everybody wins. Their quality of life improves, they’re more productive at work, happier at home, and health costs and sick leave costs go down. Gov. Jay…
Our unstoppable Ag industry
Washington’s apple industry was valued at $1.54 billion in 2010. That’s pretty impressive, but even more so is its almost 50 percent growth in just two years, to a whopping…
Early learning: Our state is failing many of its youngest citizens
Washington’s preschool enrollment is wedged at one of the most-in-need-of-improvement levels in the country, according to an Annie E. Casey Foundation national report. This disheartening information defies a near-universal principle:…