The astonishingly poor performance of a “green jobs” program in Seattle should raise serious concerns about other proposals to channel public funds toward risky efforts to further inflate the green economy bubble such as candidate for Washington State Governor Jay Inslee’s plan to use public pension funds for investment in high-risk green startups. Seattlepi.com reported Tuesday that a $20 million

At an environmental policy conference in Seattle, Wash. Thursday, former Greenpeace director and author of “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist” Dr. Patrick Moore slayed sacred cows of the clean Earth movement one by one, a series of fanatically-held beliefs Moore argues are often unscientific and lead to the creation of poor—even dangerous—public policy. Moore

Next Tuesday, the fractious debate about the inclusion of meningitis vaccinations in the recommended set of infant shots will land north of Seattle in Shoreline, Wash.The Centers for Disease Control is on a four-city tour to field public comment from doctors, healthcare workers and parents and the Shoreline meeting July 12th is the next stop after the initial meeting last

Despite all attempts to depoliticize Washington State’s redistricting process by taking it out of the hands of the legislature, it appears that political infighting may again be getting in the way of a speedy drawing of new voting lines. Only this time it is not the usual red and blue shirts holding up progress, but an internal rift among Democrats

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