Opening Day Remarks (as written) Thank you. Before I begin my remarks, please let me introduce my wife, Nancy Long. With only 60 days, we have plenty of challenges and…
Speaker Chopp’s opening day remarks
Tag: higher education
Op-ed by Rep. Pat Sullivan: Washington’s future starts now – be a part of it!
The 2014 Legislative Session starts next Monday and, although it is only a 60-day session, there are a lot of important issues on the table. Among the most pressing are:…
High tuition bad for students — and for state’s economy
It’s not news that tuition at Washington’s public colleges and universities has been rising at a dizzying rate for years. This is the first time since 1986, in fact, that…
Pay It Forward
Recently a number of people have written to me about the “Pay it Forward” concept for funding higher education in Washington. The basic idea as described on the Economic Opportunity…
Boeing, Special Sessions, Tax Policy, and Transportation
I’m in Olympia today at the behest of Governor Inslee. He called us in to, in his words: “I am asking lawmakers to pass a package of legislation that will…