For five years Washington state’s Wage Payment Act has been defending workers against wage theft by their employers. Nearly a year after Seattle acted, King County is about to vote on its own form of protection.
A Christian pastor pushes for a boycott of Northwest corporate giants that support gay rights. What we need, he says, are "God-fearing companies" to replace them.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take on a big question of justice and civil rights: affirmative action. Politicians in both parties should be careful, but Democrats have particular reason to be wary.
Seattle's missions to China, our key trading partner, mean coping with a powerful new force in global economics: state-driven capitalism. Conservative politics and our state constitution often stand in the way.
The Democrats' budget proposal relies heavily on leaving it to the next legislature to figure out how to cover costs from this budget. And it continues cuts in higher education.
