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Policy Today podcast, Common Ground edition: State Rep. Kristine Lytton

InFocus podcast: Fallout from I-1366, state revenue collections, Common Core

Former Gov. Dan Evans joins us on our Common Ground podcast!

Aerospace tax incentives work

WRC President Lew Moore spoke to Seattle's KIRO TV yesterday about the benefits of Boeing and aerospace industry tax incentives for Washington state. In response to union criticism about 777X tax incentives originally approved in 2003 and extended by the Legislature and governor in 2013, Lew stressed that they are working: "The incentive was passed in 2003," said Moore. […]

InFocus podcast: More on charter schools, economic forecast, and state life science news

Policy Today podcast, Common Ground edition: State Rep. Chad Magendanz

InFocus podcast: Traffic congestion, organic farming, Ex-Im Bank, and another rent-control proposal

We're Number Two…in organic farm sales

Here’s an interesting fact we missed last month: In 2014 Washington state’s organic farms ranked second in the nation for total sales of organic products. At $515 million in total sales, we were behind only California which clocked an impressive $2.2 billion. The total amount is the value of crop production sales plus the value of livestock […]

State Dept. of Transportation releases annual congestion report

The Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) 2015 “Corridor Capacity Report” is out today. It takes a sweeping view of transportation system usage statewide, including some of the state’s worst congestion points. You can read media coverage of the report in The Seattle Times, The News Tribune, and at MyNorthwest.com. Here are some of the […]

Policy Today, Common Ground edition: The endless campaign cycle, and other musings