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Opinion: Head-scratcher – State’s mask order for health care facilities is ending, vaccine mandate on employment is staying
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes the end of the state’s mask mandate in health and correctional facilities April 3 should have the governor…
Opinion: Washington’s emergency powers statute ranked 45th worst nationally for legislative oversight
Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center believes we didn’t need a national study to tell us that Washington’s emergency powers statute is badly lacking che…
Opinion: State of Salmon in Washington 2022 – struggling populations, sea lions, and legislative shortfalls
Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center provides an analysis of the 2022 State of Salmon in Watershed report.
Opinion: House Bill 1389 is proven to cause increases in rental rates and will reduce the availability of affordable housing
Mark Harmsworth of the Washington Policy Center says the bill will, in the long term, only continue to increase the cost of affordable housing.
Opinion: HB 1011 dies – Keep readying for a long-term-care payroll tax starting this summer
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes lawmakers just passed over the real solution to this long-term-care mess.
Opinion: Emergency powers reform dies again without even receiving a public hearing
Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center explains why our system of governance is not meant to be the arbitrary rule of one behind closed doors.
Ecology’s claim that CO2 tax shouldn’t increase gas prices is contradicted by yet another agency
Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center points out that this is just the latest example of where the messages of the state’s new CO2 cap-and-trade system a…
Opinion: Senate Bill 5054, to cut classroom learning time in schools by four hours a week
…ning time in schools by four hours a week. Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center points out that the bill would set the precedent of filling classrooms with district staff who are not qualified to…
Opinion: Stacking the deck — union coalition tries to get lawmakers to mandate workplace conditions it wants
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center states that rigid standards will hinder the medical profession and professional judgment and workplace innovation s…
Opinion: New study about COVID-19 should put another nail in the coffin for state’s vaccine mandate
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center would like the governor to remove his employment mandate on his own; if not, lawmakers need to find a way to interv…
Opinion: Lawmakers should end mistreatment of a minority group
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes it is not OK to treat people who are unvaccinated as dangerous, selfish and unworthy of work.
Opinion: Universal health care sounds good until it doesn’t; SJM 8006 offers a misguided wish
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes we need to start with an understanding that health care is not a right.