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Opinion: Child Care is an Important Issue for Family and Economic Health

The lack of access to affordable, high-quality child care isn’t just a problem for families. A recently released report shows that it’s also a major issue for employers and for the overall economy.

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Opinion: It’s Time to Celebrate the Amazing Things Washington Makes

This year, for the third straight October, the Association of Washington Business is hitting the road in a custom-wrapped bus to travel the state in support of manufacturers — big and small, global icons, virtual unknowns, and everything in between.

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Opinion: Help Washington Growers and Manufacturers Get Their Products to the World

Washington is the most trade-driven state in the nation per-capita. That’s why it’s critically important that Congress and the presidential administration renew the charter for the Export-Import Bank, which is set to expire at the end of September.

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Things to Consider as You Build a Startup Team

Amrita Lahiri, professor and researcher of strategic entrepreneurship and innovation at Carson College of Business at Washington State University, provides insight on strategies to form a successful startup.

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Reseeding an Old Idea: It’s Finally Time to Put the Flower on the Tacoma Dome

As you sit in I-5 construction traffic alongside the Tacoma Dome late this summer, you will see people dangling from safety ropes armed with buckets of Simple Green, scrub brushes, and water hoses cleaning the Dome’s grit-and-green-algae-covered roof

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State’s Proposed Overtime Rule Change Goes Too Far, Too Fast

Thousands of professional salaried employees in Washington could be converted into hourly workers if a new proposal from the Department of Labor & Industries goes into effect.

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Now is the Time to Invest in Infrastructure

Washington’s infrastructure is due for a major investment.

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Downtown Tacoma’s Renaissance: Three decades and at least one unsung hero

If I blindfolded you and dropped you at the downtown Tacoma corner of South 17th Street and Pacific Avenue in spring 1988, then removed your blindfold, chances are you would not immediately know where you were.

McMenamins' Elk Lodge is opening in Tacoma

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Promises Kept: For the Lucky 180, Just One More Email, and You’re In

Columnist Dan Voelpel keeps a promise to host a shindig to toast and celebrate the opening of McMenamins’ Elks Temple in Tacoma.

The Olympia Capitol, where hair stylists congregated to speak out on legislation affecting independent contractors.

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Hair Stylists Embody Democracy in Action

A state Senate Labor and Commerce Committee hearing on Jan. 28 was jam-packed with hair stylists, salon owners and cosmetologists embodying democracy in action.