Ellen Brown – Public Banks and Why We Need Them

David Spring release more evidence about alleged corruption

The following is an image of the first page of today’s press release from Democratic State House candidate David Spring (5th LD): See Why We Must Oppose Political Corruption for the allegations that Spring release last week. Click here to the see the pdf of the press release in its entirety. Comments comments

Austerity Economics or Real Utopias? Which one is crazier?

We need transcendent, transformative politics in this country and the world, but the mainstream paradigm remains a struggle between established power bases – one, a social democrat model as epitomized in Scandinavian models and the other, a Thatcher/Reagan model of social darwinism wearing a mantle of trickle down, supply-side economics. There is no question that […]

The Relationship Between Smaller Class Sizes and Better Student Outcomes

In recent articles, we have pointed out that Washington state is 46th in the nation in school funding as a percent of income. Washington state is also 46th in the nation in class sizes. It would take several billion dollars per year in additional funding to restore Washington state to the national average in school […]