Bill Lyne – Page 13 – United Faculty of Washington State

A spectre is haunting Olympia. The spectre of a fair tax system. Whether it’s the momentum of that whole 99% thing, or some fresh legislative leadership or just that enough is enough, it’s clear that momentum for a fundamental restructuring of the Washington State tax system is building. Even those legislators who have signed Grover…

Why would I want to be integrated into a burning house? — James Baldwin In all the intense and wide-ranging testimony about the Marriage Equality bills (SB 6239 and HB 2516) nobody asked an obvious question: Why would anyone want to be married by the state? Even the most cursory glance at the history of…

A big thanks to Senators Hill, Tom, Becker, Kastama, and Litzow, who have put some money in our pocket here at the blog. Last year, when the bill to establish Western Governors University-Washington was slithering through the legislature and everybody was promising that WGU would never come back looking for state funding, a betting pool…