“It’s easy to wish we had invested that $3 billion more directly into our workforce development, adult basic education, English as a second language, community and technical colleges and our universities.” – Representative Reuven Carlyle, on the concessions given to Boeing before they split for a low-wage state. Here at the blog, we often find ourselves keeping…

Let’s start with an observation that should by now be axiomatic: All bosses are overpaid. And most of them are insulated from and clueless about the way their attitude and privilege come off to the rest of the world.  If we could all just agree to this truth that is even older than rapacious capitalism,…

In the spirit of moving on, we’ll resist the temptation to point a finger back toward what Representative Brendan Williams calls the “Bill for Political Cowardice” about revenue and the “immoral all-cuts budget last session.”  What’s done is done. So yesterday Governor Gregoire released her required “Book One” all-cuts supplemental budget and then immediately began…