By Andrew Kidde and Larry Luton As anyone dodging the potholes in Spokane’s roads understands, Washington State’s transportation infrastructure is failing. Traffic jams abound. Many bridges, like the Post Street bridge, are either out of commission or face deferred maintenance. Why? The cost of maintaining our roads is outpacing the gas...

As a reader of this blog there’s a good chance that you’re concerned about the climate. As an American, you’re probably also worried about retirement, given that fewer than half of us have any kind of retirement savings account or access to an employer-matched 401(k), while less than 13% have...

A good letter to the newspaper can work wonders for climate action, influencing leaders in government or business you may have trouble reaching otherwise, and educating lots of local readers as well. However, any letter published must compete for attention with everything around it, and opinion pages are busy places....