By Brendan Williams In an April 26 column in The Seattle Times, a state budget leader crowed that the bipartisan, Senate-driven budget would “move state government...
By Richard Trumka I was honored to sit in the House gallery recently as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama to listen to President Barack...
By Jeff Johnson Last Thursday, Sept. 29, on a beautiful fall evening in the park in front of Longview’s Monticello Hotel, 800 to 1,000 community and...
By Stan Sorscher In a somewhat contentious Town Hall meeting, some of my Congressmember’s constituents, including me, were challenging his adherence to “free trade” policies. In...
By David Macaray On Sept. 8, a group of longshoremen estimated at between 500-1,000, all members of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union), stormed the...
By John Burbank It isn’t any surprise that people are pessimistic and negative right now. If we have jobs, we are worried about keeping them. If...
By Jeff Johnson Labor Day, for most workers, is an activity-packed, end-of-summer, three-day weekend. It is also a time to celebrate the work that we do,...
By John Burbank Labor Day was first celebrated on Sept. 5, 1882, by the members of the Central Labor Union in New York. During the following...
By Jeff Johnson In these economic times, when an opportunity to attract a $600 million private-sector investment in our state’s export infrastructure presents itself, we’d better...
By John Burbank While watching Congress and the president wrangle over the fake crisis of raising the debt ceiling, the Department of Agriculture reported that 45.8...
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