A recent Department of Revenue report found that Washington state will grant nearly $30 billion in tax breaks by the end of the current budget period. Yet lawmakers struggle to plug a $1.5 billion budget hole.
True voter turnout figures calculated by a noted authority show that in 2010, Washington trailed only one other state. Is it a vote-by-mail benefit?
A new effort, Mapping Our Voices for Equality, has grown out of federal efforts to involve more communities in promoting healthy foods and preventing the dangers associated with smoking.
A national report card focused only on a site dealing with financial records, ignoring other ways in which state government is quite open. But was there ever a time when we needed financial information more urgently?
An encounter with one signature gatherer revolves around a clearly untrue assertion. That's only part of the problem for voters in trying to know what a ballot measure means.
