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…
Counting the homeless among us
The Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness carried out its 34th annual One Night Count of homeless people on January 24. Eight hundred volunteers combed the streets to count the men,…
Hansen bills spur flow of college information
The outreach by colleges to high-achieving, low-income high schoolers would grow, and both students and parents would get a better look at the schools’ finances under a pair of bills…
Hansen bill boosts fast passenger ferries
The dream of a fast passenger-ferry run from Bremerton to Seattle moved a step closer to reality yesterday with House committee approval of a proposal to permit Kitsap Transit to…
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…