During the holidays, our thoughts naturally turn to giving – not just giving gifts, but donating our time and money…
For the last two decades, federal legislation allowing oil and gas exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has…
Recently, the Institute for Justice (Institute) determined state licensing barriers for lower-income workers and aspiring entrepreneurs not only hurts people…
Editor’s note: In 1978, I was hired by Crown Zellerbach. Part of my responsibility was to help with the permitting,…
Twenty-five years ago, business took a beating in Olympia. The swing to the left in the 1992 general election was…
Last year, Seattle Times aerospace reporter Dominic Gates wrote about the similarities and differences between Boeing’s corporate office move to…
The $5.4 billion spent to expand the Panama Canal is paying off for East Coast and Gulf of Mexico seaports;…
On a recent Saturday afternoon in Portland, a young woman stepped onto the playing field at the beginning of the…
In Washington, the legislative stalemate over permitting new household wells and the state’s construction budget has not only delayed needed…
Key tax policies emanating from the East and West coasts are like passenger trains passing one another heading in opposite…
At last count firefighters were battling 82 major wildfires in 10 Western States. The fires have already scorched 2,300 square…
All of the things that went wrong in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 appear to have been corrected…
Recently, family, friends and dignitaries gathered at Hurricane Ridge near Port Angeles to celebrate the designation of the Daniel J….
Massive forest fires in western parts of Canada and the U.S. are not only choking us with layers of smoke,…
So far this year, a trio of unexpected deaths has shocked Washington business and agriculture. Melanie Dressel, Ron Reimann and…
In 2014, President Barrack Obama opened the door for states to collect tolls on interstate highways. This year Oregon lawmakers,…
The state’s largest environmental, wildlife and natural resources agencies recently recognized 43 large forest landowners for their “exemplary efforts” to…
In the last half century, Americans yearned for energy independence. We were tired of being held captive by foreign governments…
Two days before last year’s presidential election, Frank Luntz walked away from a CBS 60 Minutes focus group leaving people…
Debating whether it was wrong for President Trump to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord negotiations…
