Posts by Bill Lyne

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Scott White’s family. Scott was a great public servant who was in that line of work for all the right reasons.  He cared deeply and he cared enough to make good things actually happen.  The future of this state got a little dimmer when Scott died, and people…

Sit on a fence long enough and you end up with a fence post up your ass. So now is the time for everyone in Washington’s public university community—students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, administration, and trustees—to get off the fence and strongly support revenue solutions to the new state budget problem. With the ink still…

So the House budget proposal was unveiled on Monday, and, well, it could have been worse.  Don’t get us wrong, here at the blog we still feel that tax loopholes should be on the table (giving money to out of state banks and private jet folks while people go hungry and die is, no matter…