An impending talent gap threatens Washington state's workforce pipeline, which faces a projected deficit of degreed and credentialed workers over the next decade.

It would help if, to run for office, politicians had to first sweat making a payroll, struggle to deal with complex and costly maze of government regulations, and deal with the uncertainty of business cycles and global competition, writes Don Burnell.

Big investment money is going to nuclear power to offset the loss of reliable electricity from coal and natural gas-fired power plants.

It’s time to push pause on spending while lawmakers get the state’s financial house in order.