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Editor’s note: Columnist Julie McDonald previously wrote a three-part series based on an interview with Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent. The series can be found at chronline.com.
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Julie McDonald / For The Reflector
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1/22/24
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Last week marked a birthday celebration, the date when a well-known Upper Cowlitz woman was born beside the banks of the Cowlitz River near present-day Randle about 170 years ago.
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Julie McDonald
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1/8/24
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The Evergreen State has always been one of the safer places to live, work and raise a family in America, going back at least as far as 1960.
Tragically, as of 2022, that’s no longer the …
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Peter Abbarno
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1/2/24
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School choice programs give families between $4,000 and $8,000 per student to cover the cost of private education. These programs provide families public assistance to select a private school if …
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Liv Finne / Washington Policy Center
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12/26/23
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People of my generation and a bit younger probably remember Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” The moral it taught was that l iving in poverty with security is …
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Maureen Harkcom
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12/26/23
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For six months now, the WA Cares payroll tax has been taking part of workers’ incomes each paycheck for another benefit many of them will never receive. Worse, the money being collected will be …
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Elizabeth Hovde / Washington Policy Center
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12/18/23
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The folks running Washington state’s WA Cares Fund, which taxes low- and high-income workers 58 cents for every $100 they make, hosted a webinar recently talking about how people can plan for …
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Elizabeth Hovde / Washington Policy Center
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12/5/23
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As our national healthcare system continues to grapple with challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, escalating costs and staffing shortages, Vancouver Clinic needs lawmakers to ensure the Medicare …
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Mark Mantei
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12/5/23
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As we prepare for the upcoming holidays, we must be grateful for what we have and focus on our needs rather than fixate on what we want and crave. Being thankful starts with an appreciation of why …
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By Don Brunell
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11/28/23
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In January, a new law took effect in Washington requiring employers with more than 15 employees to include wage and benefit information in new job postings. It’s intended to use pay …
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Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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11/13/23
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I recently learned that the old saying, “it’s too good to be true” doesn’t account for something important: scams don’t go through the intelligent, thinking part of your …
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By Brian Mittge
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11/13/23
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President Biden’s $65 billion infrastructure bill contains $8 billion for regional hubs to develop ways to produce and distribute hydrogen fuel. One is planned for the Pacific Northwest and …
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By Don Brunell
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11/6/23
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As a physician, the last thing I want is for a patient to make decisions about their health and well-being based on the cost of care and medication rather than their actual care needs.
Right now …
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Dr. Julie Stroud, Vice President of Health Services for Oregon, Humana
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10/30/23
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While media focus was on Joe Biden’s decree putting a tiny plot of land within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) off limits to oil and gas exploration, reporters ignored the bigger …
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Don Brunell
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10/16/23
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With Washington state (along with California, New York and Florida) topping the charts with the highest homeless populations, cities in Washington are taking different approaches to helping the …
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Mark Harmsworth
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10/16/23
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Once, when a Republican congressman from Massachusetts accused Lincoln of having changed his mind, Lincoln replied, ‘Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today …
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Bruce McLay / Guest columnist
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10/9/23
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There is an axiom: Don’t let “the perfect” get in the way of the good! That is important to remember when it comes to improving our air quality.
While climate activists want to …
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Don C. Brunell
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10/9/23
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Earlier this year Senator John Braun (R-Centralia) introduced SB 5248 to provide funding for individual tutoring to help students recover from the learning losses resulting from the COVID school …
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Liv Finne / Washington Policy Center
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10/2/23
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In today’s economy, along with the high cost of college and changing social attitudes about a degree’s value in some fields , employers are increasingly questioning the need to require …
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Elizabeth Hovde / Washington Policy Center
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9/25/23
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Our shared natural resources are our shared responsibility.
Following federal Judge Edward Rafeedie’s 1994 ruling in U.S. v. Washington, state and tribal co-managers have a legal …
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Ed Johnstone / NWIFC Chairman
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9/25/23
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