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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
DEPCOM Power CEO Johnnie Taul explains why the free market future of solar energy is so bright.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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The last major overhaul of U.S. immigration law came 35 years ago. Employers, immigrant rights groups and a bipartisan coalition in Congress say an update is long overdue, but reaching the 60 votes required to get most legislation through the evenly divided Senate will take significant support from a Republican Party that’s of two minds on immigration. The fate of immigration reform in the GOP, and in Congress, lies largely with two Republicans from the Inland Northwest, Central Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo.
Women negotiate just fine. Really. This is the finding of a recent large-scale review study that looked at the most effective ways to address gender differences in negotiation, scouring both academic research and workplace policy outcomes. It found that women do best at negotiating when left to their own instincts.
The recently passed bill requiring public schools to provide annual “equity training” to staff is controversial with some groups, but it is expected to have little to no impact on Spokane Public Schools. ... Conservative groups, including the Washington Policy Center, are urging Inslee to veto the bill, arguing it will force schools to embrace “critical race theory,” a way of looking at the nation’s history, society and laws as they intersect with race and the treatment of minority groups. It emphasizes the role of white privilege and institutional racism in the shaping of American society and the law. Last week, the Idaho House of Representatives specifically banned the teaching of critical race theory in that state’s schools, with Republicans saying they were trying to head off a suspected mandate from the federal government. But the term “critical race theory” does not appear anywhere in the bill approved last Tuesday by the Washington Legislature, and was only mentioned in committee hearings or floor debates over the bill by detractors.
Vice President Kamala Harris will make the case before United Nations members on Monday that now is the time for global leaders to begin putting the serious work into how they will respond to the next global pandemic. ... “At the same time that the world works to get through this pandemic, we also know that we must prepare for the next,” Harris will say, according to excerpts of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. The speech will be co-hosted by U.N. permanent representatives of Argentina, Japan, Norway and South Africa.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut. The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, allows high school athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed a year ago by cisgender runners who argued they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic opportunities by being forced to compete against two transgender sprinters. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying in the ruling released Sunday that there was no dispute to resolve because the two transgender athletes have graduated and the plaintiffs could not identify other female transgender athletes, the Hartford Courant reported.
During last summer’s reckoning over racial injustice, decadeslong debates about whether to offer reparations to the descendants of slaves in the U.S. finally seemed to be gaining momentum. State lawmakers in California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Oregon – where Democrats control the legislatures – introduced or hoped to revive proposals to study the possibility. It turns out the wait for reparations will continue. The state efforts have mostly stalled, raising questions about whether they can win enough support to succeed on a wide scale. California is the only state to approve a commission to study reparations statewide and how they might work.
After final passage of a $59.2 billion two-year budget on Sunday, lawmakers adjourned until January. The budget passed 57-40 on party lines in the House of Representatives and 27-22 in the Senate where all Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Mark Mullet of Issaquah, opposed it. It will head to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk for his signature.
A 7% tax on the sale of some investments passed the Legislature on Sunday, after a years-long push by Gov. Jay Inslee and Democrats. The controversial capital gains tax has been the subject for debate throughout the session, with supporters saying it is a step toward improving the state’s regressive tax code and opponents calling it an unconstitutional income tax. The Senate gave its final approval with a 25-24 vote.
Work on the North Spokane Corridor will continue along with numerous other projects already planned statewide thanks to an $11.8 billion transportation budget approved by the Legislature on Saturday. The budget is backed heavily by federal money, allowing the state to move forward with projects despite a decline last year in some revenues usually reserved for transportation.
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