We the Governed
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DOGE Washington Classes continue – no shortage of fraud and waste to uncover…
If you were not in one of our dozen classes we put on earlier this year, never fear, there are more opportunities to learn how to DOGE Washington State. As we’ve discussed for some time on our Video Channel (see below), we are focused on helping train activists on how to become more effective at […] The post DOGE Washington Classes continue – no shortage of fraud and waste to uncover… first appeared on We the Governed. -
DOGE Washington Training Now…
As we’ve discussed for some time on our Video Channel (see below), we are focused on helping train activists on how to become more effective at uncovering and exposing fraud, waste, abuse, incompetence, and other ways our state and local governments squander our tax dollars every day. These initial classes help interested people learn how […] The post DOGE Washington Training Now… first appeared on We the Governed. -
Panic at the Department of Licensing – Ferguson knows
The Washington State Department of Licensing has been on our radar for over a decade now. They are just another one of these poorly run agencies that always seems to be buried under attempts to pretend they are not as scandal plagued as they are. Normally, the cynic in me doesn’t really expect much to […] The post Panic at the Department of Licensing – Ferguson knows first appeared on We the Governed. -
The Left’s Next Gambit – Using Article V Convention of States to End Constitution and Trump
(Disclaimer: I realize this article is long. It is longer than any other article I’ve posted in the last decade. This subject has been on my mind since I worked at the Freedom Foundation over 10 years ago, and first met some of the original Convention of States activists – good people, trying to do […] The post The Left’s Next Gambit – Using Article V Convention of States to End Constitution and Trump first appeared on We the Governed.
Let’s Go Washington
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Campaigns begin for girls sports, parental rights, income tax initiatives
(The Center Square) - Primary results are still being tallied across Washington state from the Aug. 4 election, but at the same time, the campaigns are looking ahead to the Nov. 3 election. The post Campaigns begin for girls sports, parental rights, income tax initiatives first appeared on Let's Go Washington. -
Did Olympia Sabotage the Income Tax Fight?!
Brian Heywood joins John Curley to describe what he calls a Franz Kafka-style courtroom episode that unfolded before Let's Go Washington ever got a chance to argue its case against the state income tax's ballot wording. The post Did Olympia Sabotage the Income Tax Fight?! first appeared on Let's Go Washington. -
Harger: The legislature built a perfect trap for the income tax repeal. A Thurston County judge just proved the trap works
An anonymous watchdog account on X called MintyHawk made a lot of people who support the income tax repeal initiative uncomfortable this weekend. Whoever MintyHawk is, they walked through the statute behind the ballot language line by line. And they’re right. The post Harger: The legislature built a perfect trap for the income tax repeal. A Thurston County judge just proved the trap works first appeared on Let's Go Washington. -
Rantz: A judge rigged the income tax ballot. We must bury it in yes votes on election day.
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Lanese spent Friday morning making sure Washington voters read the state government’s campaign literature before they fill out their ballots. He upheld the income tax disclosure written by Attorney General Nick Brown’s office, tossed the legal challenge in front of him, and in the process wiped out the hearing Let’s Go Washington had scheduled that same afternoon. The people fighting the tax never got to make their argument. The post Rantz: A judge rigged the income tax ballot. We must bury it in yes votes on election day. first appeared on Let's Go Washington.
Southwest Washington Education (K-12)
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‘A painful reality’: School closures follow shrinking enrollment across the country
This article comes from https://www.idahoednews.org/top-news/a-painful-reality-school-closures-follow-shrinking-enrollment-across-the-country/?brid=YWdncwE40l_v_VDBnKWzuqunWOFp BALTIMORE – School districts around the country are facing a painful reality as enrollments decline. For many districts, there are too many schools for the number of kids they’ll serve in a few years, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. It’s not a matter […] -
Screen time
From the Facts They Don’t Teach You The world spent years pushing screens into classrooms. Tablets replaced textbooks. Digital assignments replaced handwritten notes. Schools were told that the future of education was sitting behind a screen. Now some European countries are starting to reverse course. Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Italy, and Denmark are all moving […] -
Students can’t read
The crisis of students being unable to read is a measurable, generational collapse in literacy that extends from elementary students lacking phonics to high schoolers who cannot comprehend complex texts. 40% of fourth graders cannot read proficiently, and 32% of twelfth graders scored below Basic on the 2024 NAEP reading assessment, the lowest level since the test began in 1992. […] -
Some old-school ideas that worked
From an article at https://1819news.com/culture/jeff-minick-some-old-school-ideas-that-worked Recently I bumbled into the 1962 Spotlight, the yearbook for Boonville High School in Piedmont, N.C. I was in fifth grade that year, and the elementary school, which was on the same property and ran from first through eighth grade, was included in the album. My perusal left me a bit […]
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