(The Center Square) – A study released earlier this month ranks Washington as the No. 1 state for entrepreneurs in 2025. Simplify LLC, an independent publication that provides free guides for small business owners, conducted its “Best & Worst States for Entrepreneurs in 2025” study by analyzing six categories of data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Tax Foundation and the U.S. Senate. Those six categories are job creation, consumer spending, inflation, business
(The Center Square) – Senate Minority Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, wants to transform The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., into a University of Washington Health Sciences campus. Braun has proposed Senate Bill 5424 would redirect state resources “toward producing the intermediate health-care workers needed to respond to the ‘Silver Tsunami’ of people whose medical needs are expected to overwhelm the current capacity of Washington’s health-care system,” according to a news release from Braun’s office.
(The Center Square) – Sound Transit’s light rail reliability issues led its board of directors on Thursday to ratify an emergency measure to hasten work on necessary fixes. Goran Sparrman, Sound Transit’s interim CEO, declared an emergency in a written finding on Tuesday. After Sparrman issued his finding, staff gave existing contractor HNTB Corporation permission to come up with a project management plan to improve operational reliability in terms of bettering performance, security and safety.
(The Center Square) – Three candidates for the vacant King County Council District 5 seat have been announced by County Executive Dow Constantine. Those candidates include former state Sen. Karen Keiser, former state legislator and former King County Councilmember Julia Patterson, and current Tukwila City Councilmember De’Sean Quinn. Whoever is approved by the King County Council will serve until the certification of the next general election in November. King County Council District 5 covers the
