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Affordable health care – a long journey, but well worth the wait.
We’re two months into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While short of their original goal, supporters are highlighting the 100,000 people who now have affordable health care...
Nick Hanauer: Investors create jobs like squirrels create evolution
Slate.com has a great piece by Henry Blodget about fixing America’s “struggles with high unemployment and record inequality.” Blodget tackles, head-on, what he calls a persistent myth that’s become conventional...
Happy Thanksgiving!
We’re taking a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but we’ll be back on Monday, November 25. In the meantime, we wish you a safe and joyful holiday weekend....
Washington wine: No. 2 — with a bullet!
When it comes to wine, California is a Gulliver among the Lilliputians, producing far more than any other state. But Washington is No. 2 in premium-wine production, and growing fast....
Next-generation rail making inroads back east
As negotiations continue on a transportation revenue package here in Washington, elected officials on the East Coast are weighing a proposal to install advanced, high-speed rail from Washington, D.C. to...
Voter participation fell this year
Despite the critical and popular success of the Netflix series “House of Cards,” interest in politics is not exactly booming – at least, not as measured by voter participation in...
See what WSDOT has in store for your area
The 2014-2017 Draft Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), which includes more than 1,000 projects across the state, is now available. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) worked closely with...
Food stamp cuts: who is suffering?
Here in Washington state, we know the answer: exactly 456,000 children and 234,000 elderly or disabled people. A new interactive map released by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows how recent...
The moment we heard the news
It’s the question that defined a generation: “Where were you when you found out that President Kennedy had been shot?” As we remember that tragic afternoon in Dallas fifty...
Meet a new legislator: Tana Senn, 41st District
Rep. Tana Senn is the newest member of Team House Democratic Caucus, having received unanimous King County Council appointment to the Legislature just this past September. Tana (pronounced “TAW-na”) was...