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POLL: Do you agree with light rail as the choice for transit on the Interstate Bridge replacement project?
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POLL: Do you agree with light rail as the choice for transit on the Interstate Bridge replacement project?

Do you agree with light rail as the choice for transit on the Interstate Bridge replacement project?

Apr 21, 2022

Opinion: Apollo’s Misfire: Governor Inslee’s miserable record of predicting the future of climate and energy
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Opinion: Apollo’s Misfire: Governor Inslee’s miserable record of predicting the future of climate and energy

Fourteen years after the publication of Governor Inslee’s book, his record at predicting the direction of climate policy and innovation is extremely poor.

Apr 21, 2022

Opinion: Value nothing more than the truth
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Opinion: Value nothing more than the truth

Clark County Today Administrator Heidi Wetzler shares that ‘the foundation of totalitarianism is an ideology made of lies and it requires the masses to be too afraid to speak the truth. ’

Apr 20, 2022

Opinion: 2022 supplemental budget brings huge increase in inflation-adjusted per-capita spending
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Opinion: 2022 supplemental budget brings huge increase in inflation-adjusted per-capita spending

Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center shares data that illustrates ongoing spending increases adopted by Washington lawmakers.

Apr 20, 2022

Opinion: Big to-do list for group overseeing state’s long-term-care law
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Opinion: Big to-do list for group overseeing state’s long-term-care law

Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center provides insight into the Monday meeting of the Long-Term Services and Supports Trust Commission.

Apr 20, 2022

Opinion: I-1929 ballot title challenge opening brief filed
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Opinion: I-1929 ballot title challenge opening brief filed

Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center shares details of the capital gains income tax repeal effort.

Apr 19, 2022

Opinion: Washington state stubbornly refuses to cut taxes for families
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Opinion: Washington state stubbornly refuses to cut taxes for families

Chris Cargill of the Washington Policy Center points out how the hardliners in the Washington State Legislature have decided to keep extra money for their own spending priorities.

Apr 19, 2022

Opinion: State epidemiologist ‘proud’ of agency’s failed COVID contact tracing program, says everyone else is to blame
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Opinion: State epidemiologist ‘proud’ of agency’s failed COVID contact tracing program, says everyone else is to blame

Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center discusses the consistent failure of the state’s contact tracing program during the pandemic.

Apr 18, 2022

Opinion: Majority of Democratic trifecta states pursuing broad tax relief
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Opinion: Majority of Democratic trifecta states pursuing broad tax relief

Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center points out that while Gov. Inslee and the majority party passed on the opportunity to provide broad-based tax relief in 2022, other Democrat-controlled…

Apr 18, 2022

Opinion: Vancouver school superintendent seeks to end learning excellence program
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Opinion: Vancouver school superintendent seeks to end learning excellence program

Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center takes a look at the discussion to end the Vancouver School District’s Highly Gifted program permanently.

Apr 15, 2022

Opinion: Expensive marketing continues for state’s long-term-care fund, while the number of workers seeking exemption continues to rise
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Opinion: Expensive marketing continues for state’s long-term-care fund, while the number of workers seeking exemption continues to rise

Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center shines the light on the marketing of the long-term-care fund (payroll tax).

Apr 15, 2022

Opinion: Down the rabbit hole – the Clark County Council redistricting map process
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Opinion: Down the rabbit hole – the Clark County Council redistricting map process

Battle Ground resident Dick Rylander scrutinizes the redistricting process in Clark County.

Apr 15, 2022

POLL: Should county staff consider the addresses of current councilors when drawing a new county voting district map?
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POLL: Should county staff consider the addresses of current councilors when drawing a new county voting district map?

Should county staff consider the addresses of current councilors when drawing a new county voting district map?

Apr 14, 2022

Opinion: A new report confirms that restrictive COVID lockdowns don’t work
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Opinion: A new report confirms that restrictive COVID lockdowns don’t work

Mark Harmsworth of the Washington Policy Center makes the case that lockdowns are not the answer to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Apr 14, 2022

Opinion: SBOH votes against pursuing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for school and day care children in Washington state at this time
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Opinion: SBOH votes against pursuing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for school and day care children in Washington state at this time

Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center shares insight into decision by the Washington State Board of Health.

Apr 13, 2022

The willful blindness of the left
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The willful blindness of the left

Exclusive: Joseph Farah on the rebellion against reason and righteousness.

Apr 13, 2022

Opinion: I-1929 campaign challenges AG’s ‘misleading’ ballot title and summary
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Opinion: I-1929 campaign challenges AG’s ‘misleading’ ballot title and summary

Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center shares perspective on a legal challenge filed Monday to the attorney general’s ballot title and summary for the proposed ballot measure.

Apr 12, 2022

Opinion: Washington attorney general fires Ukrainian paralegal over vaccine mandate
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Opinion: Washington attorney general fires Ukrainian paralegal over vaccine mandate

Mariya Frost of the Washington Policy Center illustrates how Washington continues to maintain its state of emergency and vaccine mandate.

Apr 12, 2022