by Editor | Jan 17, 2013 | Economy, Govt Agencies, WA State News
By ANNA DUFF For The Olympia Report Posted 1/16/2013 The state of Washington actually pays more to build affordable housing than the private sector does to build market-rate housing, one comparison of two projects in Seattle found. Members of the House Capital Budget...
by Editor | Jan 6, 2013 | Agenda 21, Govt Agencies, WA State DOE, WA State News, Water Issues
By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press Posted 1/5/2013 Washington state ranchers expect the state Department of Ecology to propose new water quality regulations soon. “It’s imminently close,” said Jack Field, executive vice president of the Washington...
by Editor | Dec 30, 2012 | Unions, WA State News
Op/Ed from Bob Williams article on State Budget Solutions on June 5, 2012. Posted 12/30/2012 There are three important lessons from the Wisconsin collective bargaining battles over the past eighteen months: 1. The power of the government-sector unions and their impact...
by Editor | Dec 28, 2012 | WA State News
By KIRK JOHNSON New York Times Published: December 26, 2012 OLYMPIA, Wash. — From the governor-elect on down, through both chambers of the Legislature, a tincture of blue political monoculture drifts through Washington State politics like mist through the...
by Editor | Dec 6, 2012 | Agenda 21, WA State DOE, WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
By Steve Brown Capital Press Posted 12/6/2012 Washington State – Rancher Joe Lemire questions whether inspectors from the Washington Department of Ecology got valid readings from Pataha Creek before accusing him of polluting state waters. In 2009, the state...
by Editor | Nov 18, 2012 | Economy, EPA, Govt Agencies, WA State DOE, WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
from Pearl Rains-Hewett Posted 11/18/2012 WHAT HAVE OUR COUNTY’S GOT IN COMMON? OUR TIMBER INDUSTRIES AND, How Water and Land Use Regulations and Litigation Are Destroying Us “The hand writing on the wall” is an idiom for “imminent doom or...
