Climate Policy Wars:
People want affordable solutions
Jobless benefits a vicious cycle for employers
Finding a job is the best substitute for an unemployment check, but as more and more Americans exhaust their jobless benefits, employment opportunities remain sparse.
Taxing tans causes confusion, health risks
Never forget that free enterprise makes america tick
Just before my father died, I asked him why he kept repeating stories about his childhood and his life.
Protecting sources means protecting the public
During the course of its investigation into the current Gulf of Mexico oil spill, The Associated Press was given information from the then-office of Mineral Management Services that was not making a lot of sense.
Pulaski’s gift
Ask any wildland firefighter and they’ll swear by their “pulaski,” a tool that combines an axe and a mattock (similar to a pickaxe).
Voters Can Reset Government This Fall
The lame argument of this election year is if private stores like Costco are allowed to sell liquor, underage drinking will explode.
Nuclear power gaining new life
GUEST | EDITORIAL
After passage, we learn the true cost of federal health care reform
Liberals and conservatives agreed on one thing during the health care debate: the cost of health care in the United States is not sustainable. Last year we spent $2.2 trillion, or 17% of the United States’ gross domestic product (GDP), on health care.
We don’t need income tax
This fall Washington voters will likely again be asked to pass a state income tax. Tax proponents want to impose a tax of 5 percent on people with yearly incomes over $200,000 and on couples with incomes over $400,000. The rate would rise to 9 percent at the $500,000 and $1 million levels.
Public employee pensions: a ticking time bomb
Most people know that our $13 trillion national debt is endangering America’s credit rating and pushing the United States closer to bankruptcy.
Medicare payment board needs fixing
Those who opposed the healthcare bill are currently debating whether “repeal and replace” should be the clarion call in the coming election.
Mistake to bypass the moon
Cancelling the Constellation program - the successor to America’s historic space shuttle program—is a huge mistake, but that is exactly what President Obama plans to do.
Economic landmines buried in federal legislation
As legislators and others comb through the massive health-care reform law, they are finding little-known provisions that will have a big impact on the American people and our economy.
Too much wind power in the northwest?
Could Washington and Oregon’s growing fleet of wind turbines become too much of a good thing? Perhaps.
Our state has a lot riding on the 787
GUEST | EDITORIAL
Big companies take advantage of cute kids while fundraising
Just as I was typing out the title for this here little rant of mine, I realized how truly ironic it is that “fundraiser” contains the word “fun,” because really, there is nothing “fun” about using kids to peddle goods, no matter how you look at it.
Intervention and uncertainty stalling economic recovery
Few people know that tucked into the massive new federal health reform law was a federal takeover of the student loan program.
Cell law best for public safety
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Butch Otter (and others) courting Washington employers
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