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Opinion: Legislative Session Offers Chance to Examine Growth of State Spending

Since the Great Recession, Washington’s budget has grown 44 percent, adjusted for inflation. The 2020 legislative session represents an opportunity for lawmakers to reexamine that growth and focus on sustainable spending.

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Opinion: How Tacoma Can Address the Current Housing Crisis

Jessie Gamble, government affairs manager for the Master Builders Association of Pierce County, shares her insight on the future of housing attainability in the region.

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Opinion: Sharing the Spirit of the Season Across our State

A charitable Washington state 10-year-old recently lit the 34-foot noble fir at the 31st annual Holiday Kids’ Tree Lighting ceremony in the state Capitol rotunda.

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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.