Mary Strow

Boys & Girls Clubs of King County CEO speaks out against 'predictive scheduling'

On the heels of new minimum wage laws, the Seattle City Council, some members of the state Legislature and others are now setting their sights on so-called "predictive scheduling," which would impose mandates on how employers schedule their employees' shifts. The largely union-funded groups advocating the policy say it would help workers – particularly those […]

Job openings, some worker shortages expected in aerospace industry

An article in today's Puget Sound Business Journal brought our attention to a new "Talent Pipeline Study for Aerospace" published by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County. It's full of fascinating data on employment in the aerospace industry through 2023. Some highlights: While "overall employment within the aerospace industry will decline by 0.8% annually from 2013 […]

Common Ground Podcast: State Rep. Judy Clibborn on Consensus-Building

Policy Today podcast: Morton Kondracke on "This Perilous Election – How Did We Get Here?"

Boeing Company "Invested More than $13 Billion in Washington state in 2015"

Boeing announced Friday "that the company invested more than $13 billion in Washington in 2015, reflecting the value Washington taxpayers received from Boeing’s presence in the state." It also "reported $305 million in savings in 2015 via the Washington aerospace tax incentives." According to Boeing, its $13 billion in investments include: Billions of dollars of expenditures […]

Policy Today podcast: Looking ahead to next year's budget

Policy Today Podcast: Session's Over, Budget Wrapup

Morton Kondracke to speak on the 2016 presidential election at the WRC Annual Dinner May 19 in Bellevue!

We've got a great guest for our 84th Annual Dinner on May 19: Morton Kondracke, known to many from his years on TV's iconic The McLaughlin Group ​and for his work as a journalist, columnist and commentator at the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Republic, Newsweek, Roll Call and Fox News…just to name a few (he even made […]

Policy Today podcast: House and Senate supplemental budgets

McCleary bill, with changes, clears Senate committee hurdle

In the continuing saga of legislation to address the state Supreme Court's McCleary​ ruling on K-12 basic education funding, the Senate Ways & Means Committee on Tuesday took action, approving its version – but not without changes, or controversy. Second Substitute Senate Bill 6195 looks a bit different than when we last wrote about it (here and […]