Budget

Automatic Cuts are Getting a Big Yawn from Washington

Posted February 16th, 2013 by Washington Post

Finger-Pointing Trumps Problem-Solving on Federal Budget

Posted February 12th, 2013 by Seattle Times

Many 2011 Federal Budget Cuts Had Little Real-World Effect

Posted February 10th, 2013 by Washington Post

Worker Productivity in U.S. Declines, Pushing Up Labor Costs

Posted February 10th, 2013 by Bloomberg

Obama Tells House Democrats He Will Confront Republicans on Taxes

Posted February 8th, 2013 by New York Times

Call Obama’s Sequester Bluff

Posted February 8th, 2013 by Washington Post Columnist

Kick That Can

Posted February 8th, 2013 by New York Times Columnist

Consumers Taking Financial Hit From Rising Fuel Prices

Posted February 5th, 2013 by CNBC

Partisan Paralysis Returns to the Hill

Posted February 4th, 2013 by Politico

The Lesson From Japan

Posted February 4th, 2013 by Real Clear Politics Od-Ed

Latest State

State Lawmakers Vote No on Flaws, Yes to Retouching

Shocker! Solons Get Photoshop Help in Official Portraits

By Melissa Santos | The News Tribune
PDC: Tacoma PAC That Sent Attack Mailers Against Connelly Violated State Law

State's Million-Dollar Candidate Was Attacked by Supporters of Jeannie Darneille

By Lewis Kamb | The News Tribune
Students Help Expand Scholarship Opportunities

Washington State’s Opportunity Scholarship Program is Right to Turn to its Scholars for Help Broadening and Deepening the Program’s Reach

By Editorial
It’s Harder to be a Husky This Year — More Turned Away at UW

By Katherine Long | Seattle Times
Scholarships Aim to Encourage Students to Study Science, Engineering

Boeing, Microsoft Kick in $25 Million for Scholarship Program

By Glenn Farley | KING-5 TV
The First Cohort of Scholars

Washington State Opportunity Scholarship Program is Worthy of Support

By Editorial | The (Everett) Herald
Environmental Coalition Wants Single Coal Port Study

Advocates Call it a Delaying Tactic

By Bill Sheets | The (Everett) Herald

Latest National/World

Analysis: Obama Expresses Regrets But Seeks To Retain Anti-Terror Powers

“To put it crassly, the president sought to rebuke his own administration for taking the positions it has — but also to make sure that it could continue to do so.”

By Washington Post
Low-Skilled Workers Get Raw Deal Under Obamacare

Obamacare's requirement that insurance policies include "essential" benefits such as mental health services apply only to small businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

By Real Clear Politics
Seven Thrilling Facts About Carbon Taxes from the CBO

The burden imposed by a tax of $20 per ton on CO2 emissions would amount to 1.8 percent of before-tax income for households in the lowest quintile and about 0.7 percent of before-tax income for households in the highest quintile.

By Washington Post
German Solar Will Cost 4X Finnish Nuclear

The Olkiluoto nuclear reactor in Finland is commonly perceived as the poster child of construction delays and cost overruns.

By Real Clear Energy
How Ideas From Private Industry Help Combat Medicare Fraud, Waste, And Abuse

Such fraud-control programs in consumer banking have reduced losses by more than two-thirds over twenty years despite more sophisticated and more global fraud activities.

By Health Affairs
UK: Soldier’s Murder May Be Terror-Related

Prime Minister Cameron condemns attack in London in which soldier was hacked to death and says Islam must not be blamed.

By Al Jazeera
Do Charter Schools Work?

The latest findings, based on six well-regarded charter schools in Boston, released Wednesday by the Boston Foundation adds to the accumulating evidence that at least a subset of high-performing charters are measuring up to the movement’s early aspirations of giving disadvantaged kids a shot at a better life.

By Slate