By most criteria, Washington state has had the most regressive tax code in the country. Powerful interests are working to keep it that way.
There are two ways that any government agency or office can be judged; the productive, measurable results of its work and the level of trust/respect it acquires.
For a variety of reasons, we in the USA and around the word are experiencing change at a rate and at a depth few of us would have ever imagined possible.
Why renting might be the best way to survive a deluge like the Great Recession.
Actually, that might not be so bad. Here’s why.
We live our lives on an intermittent basis; from how we eat to how we sleep to the turning of the earth into an out of daylight and darkness.
The weather, the Super Bowl, president No. 45 and much more.
Some are large, some small, some remarkable, some great and, as we all know too well, some not-so-great.
The city of Tacoma has a very strange shape – but even our city’s shape has its advantages
Few places in the south Puget Sound area are as bucolic and serene as Point Defiance. That serenity was shattered when a woman was repeatedly stabbed.
For life to sustain itself, we need far more than the majority to be in the moderate ranges.
Money is one of those domains, perhaps like everything human constructed, where two unrelenting, unyielding, powerful opposite truths prevail.
Washington state, perhaps like every state, is divided and compartmentalized in a variety of ways. These categories define who we vote for, sometimes our speed limits and, in perhaps the most direct personal way, our area code.