|
Over the past few months, I have watched individuals, organizations and news outlets lie about Initiative Measure IL26-638, which seeks to exclude males from competing in girls' sports.
I have …
more
By Dr. Erica Li
|
7/14/26
|
|
A missing child from Arizona was recently found in an Olympia homeless encampment after investigators suspected she was being sex trafficked. That fact alone should disturb every one of us.
…
more
By Sarah Mittelman
|
7/7/26
|
|
Imagine being told you have to leave your home, perhaps forever. You only have a couple of hours to pack, and you can only take what fits in your car.
Calista Christiansen, a seventh-grader from …
more
By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
|
7/7/26
|
|
In his book, “Inventing America,” the liberal scholar Garry Wills argued that the Declaration of Independence owed much to previous Anglo-American history. This is correct.
English …
more
By Rob Natelson / Mountain States Policy Center
|
6/30/26
|
|
Washington state’s third-highest-in-the-nation gas tax is going up again on July 1, 2026.
It will be the first “automatic” or “inflation-based” increase since ESHB 2711, signed …
more
By Bob Pishue / Mountain States Policy Center
|
6/30/26
|
|
As Spokane County treasurer and a state representative, I've spent years working on issues involving public safety, tax compliance and government accountability. One thing I've learned is that when …
more
By Mike Volz
|
6/30/26
|
|
Ten years ago, when AWB’s first Manufacturing Week bus tour crossed the state, we had many goals, such as highlighting the great jobs available in our state’s modern manufacturing sector and …
more
By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
|
6/23/26
|
|
Amidst evidence of signature gatherers being harassed, Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown is offering his support to prosecute those trying to interfere with the initiative and referendum …
more
By Sam Cardwell / Mountain States Policy Center
|
6/22/26
|
|
On June 5, the director of Gov. Bob Ferguson's Office of Financial Management (OFM) sent every state agency a letter telling them to brace for what she called "the most challenging budget any of us …
more
By Ryan Frost / Washington Policy Center
|
6/15/26
|
|
My wife volunteered for years in dog rescue efforts around the region, and her experiences made clear to me that Oregon’s animal cruelty and mistreatment laws were inadequate and needed …
more
Randy Stapilus / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
|
6/12/26
|
|
Seventeen years ago, after 100 years of local ownership, The Reflector was sold in 2010 to a publishing group that once owned newspapers from California to Washington. Most recently, it was owned by …
more
Commentary by Camden Spiller / The Reflector
|
6/11/26
|
|
Timothy was dead for a week in Seattle’s Discovery Park, lying halfway inside the door of his tent, when an officer investigating rumors of “a body in the woods” finally found him on March 31. …
more
By Marsha Michaelis / Discovery Institute
|
6/9/26
|
|
I understand why Gov. Bob Ferguson would lash out at Washington Republican Party Chairman Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen.
The Grays Harbor County lawmaker has made it his job to call out Ferguson …
more
By Chad Taylor
|
6/5/26
|
|
I start each workday by reviewing the latest economic and government reports for Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming. It doesn’t take long to see a trend. Those states that prioritize fiscal …
more
By Jason Mercier / Mountain States Policy Center
|
5/22/26
|
|
For 15 years, Washington has lived with an uncomfortable truth: we rank dead last in the nation for police staffing per capita. And instead of reversing course, the Legislature continues to pass laws …
more
By Jared Nieuwenhuis / Councilmember, City of Bellevue
|
5/22/26
|
|
In a time when many feel we’ve never been more divided, when rhetoric often replaces real conversation, one of the most powerful tools a representative can bring to the job is the ability to …
more
Ben Christly
|
5/18/26
|
|
Ridgefield School District has heard concerns regarding changes to our elementary schedules and program of study. I want our community to know this clearly: we understand these concerns, we value the …
more
5/18/26
|
|
When former Gov. Christine Gregoire starts sounding the alarm about Washington state government, Olympia should pay attention.
Gregoire is not a conservative activist. She is not …
more
By Chris Cargill / Mountain States Policy Center
|
5/15/26
|
|
It has been a privilege to have this space week after week to alert readers about important public-policy issues facing our beautiful state and how the Republican members of our state Senate are …
more
By. Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
|
5/8/26
|
|
|
Back in February, when the Association of Washington Business released a survey showing that nearly one in five Washington employers were looking to move business to another state — and almost half …
more
By Kris Johnson, Association of Washington Business
|
5/6/26
|
