Thought Leaders
Budget Analyst
April Jobs Numbers Show Strong Private Sector
Employment in Washington has improved considerably since April 2011, when the unemployment rate was more than a percentage point higher at 9.3%. Since then, the state has added nearly 40,000...
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Education Reform Fellow
Background on opting out of a union
A quick summary for reference of how to opt out of a public or private mandatory union workplace in Washington state.
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Property Rights Director
Notice of Open Meetings Act Violation Filed Against Thurston County Commissioners
Secret meetings just got a little harder in Thurston County as the Thurston County Commissioners were handed a formal notice of their recent Violation of the Open Meetings Act in regards to the...
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Senior Education Analyst
“The Cost of Cutting Online Learning”
State budgets have been hurting in a bad way. Across the country, legislatures continue to struggle to close deficits while still providing essential services. While cuts have been necessary,...
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April Jobs Numbers Show Strong Private Sector
Employment in Washington has improved considerably since April 2011, when the unemployment rate was more than a percentage point higher at 9.3%. Since then, the state has added nearly 40,000...
Background on opting out of a union
A quick summary for reference of how to opt out of a public or private mandatory union workplace in Washington state.
Notice of Open Meetings Act Violation Filed Against Thurston County Commissioners
Secret meetings just got a little harder in Thurston County as the Thurston County Commissioners were handed a formal notice of their recent Violation of the Open Meetings Act in regards to...
“The Cost of Cutting Online Learning”
State budgets have been hurting in a bad way. Across the country, legislatures continue to struggle to close deficits while still providing essential services. While cuts have been necessary,...
How the state might spare public, businesses the initiative confusion
Crosscut | May 16, 2012Mike Reitz, general counsel for the Freedom Foundation, a libertarian-leaning research group in Olympia, said there’s no telling when the Supreme Court will rule on I-1183, though he thinks...
