Opinion
Editorial: What we don’t know about finances is costing us
The state treasurer’s office has online lessons and tools that can improve your financial literacy.
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Editorial: We can pay a little now for care we’ll need later
Like the paid family leave act, the Long-Term Care Act would help provide care for ourselves.
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Editorial: Inslee right to ease path on marijuana clemency
Allowing about 3,500 to clear their records — before voters made cannabis legal — is simple fairness.
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Editorial: $5,500 and a hashtag might help finish Highway 522
#Finish522 is meant to help make the case for ending a traffic bottleneck between Maltby and Monroe.
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Editorial: State should act to limit teens’ e-cigarette use
Lawmakers should raise the smoking age to 21 and tax vaping products the same as all tobbacco.
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Editorial: Help newsrooms fulfill watchdog role — subscribe
New research finds there’s a cost to government — and taxpayers — when communities lose newspapers.
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Editorial: Our resolutions for state and federal lawmakers
Democrats and Republicans at the state and federal level have much to prove to voters.
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Editorial: New paths toward confronting climate change
Voters rejected a fee on carbon, but support is strong for addressing climate change. Here’s how:
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Editorial: Counting on economic power of creativity
Edmonds is the first city in a state program to establish a district to promote creative businesses.
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Editorial: Cavities to fill in state corporate dentistry law
A 2017 state law made chains of dental clinics legal, but one now faces allegations of violations.
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Editorial: Study shows later start to school day helps teens
Research of Seattle schools’ later start shows students are sleeping more and doing better in class.
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Editorial: How to fill 740,000 job openings in the state
A state investment of $110 million will help guide students’ paths to fulfilling and well-paid jobs.
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Editorial: State lawmakers should heed advice on transparency
A task force report should guide legislators on greater compliance with the Public Records Act.
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Editorial: Think before you toss items into a recycling bin
Things that can’t be recycled are making recyclables more difficult and expensive to handle.
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Editorial: Ban sale of high-capacity firearm magazines
It wasn’t included in legislative proposals by a state work group, but lawmakers should discuss it.
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Editorial: Navy should return to talks on Growlers’ impacts
The effects of a four-fold increase in flights at a Coupeville field warrant an agreement.
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Editorial: Change school bond passage to simple majority
Requiring 60 percent approval to pass bonds shortchanges students and isn’t fiscally responsible.
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Editorial: Yes, voters passed I-940; now it should be changed
A collaboration improves the state law on police shootings and prepares the ground for future work.
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Editorial: A duty to speak up when we hear hate speech
Recent incidents invoving students’ use of hate speech play against a rise in hate crimes in the U.S.
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Editorial: State must make own path to address climate change
A plan to take statewide actions to address climate change doesn’t require presidential leadership.