Washington has the nation’s highest minimum wage at $9.47 an hour and now the state Legislature wants to hike it to $12. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D) wants to boost it to $15 to go in step with the SeaTac initiative, which voters barely approved last year.
Happy April Fools’ Day! Here’s a wish that our family, friends and neighbors aren’t the unwitting fools in some recent scams going on around the Olympic Peninsula.
No matter how fitting it might seem, my guess is that not one candidate for the office of President of the USA will announce their candidacy on April Fools’ Day.
Dave Brackett is no stranger to oddly designed motorcycles. In fact, he’s a pioneer in the field.
“Eat right and exercise.” It’s good advice. But millions of us Americans struggle every day to live up to our hopes regarding diet and activity.
Editor Mike Dashiell talks crime, the NCAA bracket and sewage.
Most of us have heard the saying that watching legislation being made is like watching sausage being made.
Instilled with a sense of history by his father as a child, Garland Frankfurth went on to teach U.S. history and although he ended his formal teaching career in the Sequim School District, he has continued to learn and explore the country’s history firsthand.
Local lawmaker roll call, provided by WashingtonVotes.org
If you had a child at the University of Washington at the beginning of the Great Recession, you may have been set back by the tuition. In the 2008-2009 academic year it was $7,254 (in today’s dollars), almost one-fifth of a full time job paid at the median wage.
Sequim schools, you are not alone. On Feb. 10, 16 of 27 school construction bond proposals across Washington met the “super majority” benchmark of 60 percent.
In the interest of full disclosure, there are two things you should know about me in reading this column. One is that I was employed in administration of Olympic Medical Center (OMC) for nearly seven years. I was the Assistant Administrator of Planning and Development for most of those years.
For the first time in American history, entrepreneurship is in decline.
