Pacific Northwest federal legislators and their peers should consider carefully a call to safeguard economic development tools with a trio of tax-code revisions that could aid expansion and create more jobs.
While the last veterans who survived the “surprise” Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are dwindling rapidly, we cannot let their sacrifices and the memories of that horrific day that propelled America into World War II fade into history.
With a contentious election season in the rearview mirror, it’s time for Spokane’s political factions to come together to solve the region’s overarching problems.
The Clean Buildings Act will cost Washington property owners millions of dollars in the coming years. State regulators should tap the brakes on broadening the law’s impacts, and state lawmakers should look at ways to ease its effects.