Impacts of Health Care Bill on Washington State
National by NW Digest Team on January 16th, 2010 with 2 Comments so far.By Roger Stark, MD
Health Care Policy Analyst
January 2010
U.S. House and Senate Democrats have passed two sweeping 2,000 page bills that would fundamentally and dramatically change our health care. There are significant differences between the two bills, but the more moderate Senate bill has the best chance of passing through the conference committee and being signed by the President. Both bills passed on a strict party-line vote, with essentially no support from minority Republicans.
Finding the Middle Ground on Environmental Policy
Opinion by Andrew on July 24th, 2009 with No Comments so far.On Wednesday in Seattle, Climatologist Patrick Michaels discussed the science and the politics of Climate Change at the Washington Policy Center’s 7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon and Conference. His qualifications include being a “research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” He knows his stuff and recently has published a book entitled “Climate of Extremes.”
He claims to operate in the middle ground of those in the ongoing debate over Climate Change and the policies that organizations around the world and in the United States that are currently determining. In his presentation, he pointed out the flaws from what the left would call “global warming deniers,” and also those who are sounding the alarm because of what they perceive as a crash course for planetary destruction. As a result, he angers both extremes.
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Finne: How to Make Education Outrageously Better
Opinion by NW Digest Team on July 16th, 2009 with No Comments so far.By Liv Finne
The troubles of the nation’s schools have caught the attention of software innovator and philanthropist Scott Oki. In his thoughtful new book, Outrageous Learning: An Education Manifesto, Foundational Thoughts on Reforming our Public Schools, published by Washington Policy Center, Scott describes the ills facing public schools and coolly applies the same frank, no-nonsense analysis which made him one of the most successful executives at Microsoft and a recognized leader in the technology world.
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