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Opportunity Scholarship Program gets a boost in the budget
In 2010, the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board found that seventeen percent of Washington businesses had difficulty filling vacancies. Eleven thousand employers reported there simply were not enough qualified...
Last chance for health care coverage!
We’ve said it before, but we really mean it this time. Open enrollment in health care plans offered through Washington Healthplanfinder is ending on March 31. If you don’t have...
Oil Transport back in the news
Regretfully, perhaps ironically, an oil spill occurred Sunday in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. Ironic because it’s nearly 25 years to the day of infamous Exxon Valdez spill in...
Who says government can’t be efficient?
At the beginning of December, Rep. Larry Springer got an e-mail from John Bagge, a Kirkland resident and fellow small business owner. John owns a catering company called Twelve Baskets....
Housing people who are homeless saves money, lives
A new study by the University of North Carolina pins down savings to taxpayers when people who are homeless are giving cheap, simple housing. The savings, according to the study,...
Good news: ER visits are way, way down
Most people don’t go to their doctor – much less the emergency room – five times a year. The ER is the most expensive possible way to get health treatment....
New 144-Car Ferry Finished
As the Governor prepares to sign a 2014 Supplemental Transportation budget that funds a third much-needed Olympic-class ferry, Washington ferry riders received another bit of good news this week: The...
Washington’s unemployment rate still lower than national rate
Washington’s unemployment rate remains at the lowest point in more than 5 years. During the first two months of 2014, the rate held steady at 6.4 percent, which was lower...
Robinson back home, opens in-district office
Having struck compromise gold on a supplemental operating budget and some other prickly issues, the 2014 Legislature adjourned on time last week. State Rep. June Robinson is happily back home...
Boosting opportunity for high-school grads
Not all bills that come before the Legislature ignite controversy, generate front-page headlines or get the talking heads talking. But that doesn’t mean they don’t do good, in a quiet...