Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Would you buy a new car or a new house without knowing how you’ll pay for it? Of course not. But Washington voters do something similar every time they approve a costly initiative without specifying how it will be paid for. That needs to change.
In 2000, voters overwhelmingly approved two initiatives to hire more teachers and provide annual cost of living increases for all K-12 school employees and faculty at community and technical colleges.
Even though the measures would increase spending by hundreds of millions of dollars, neither initiative identified a source of new funding. Within a coup...
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