Ross Hunter

Month: October 2014

  • Super-Interesting Changes in The Amount of Driving We Do

    WSDOT released a new forecast of gas tax revenue based on a new forecast of how much people are likely to drive in the future. Less. There are a lot of factors that drive this change, and you can read more about them on Sightline, The Seattle Times, or the actual wonky report itself, published…

  • Golden Crayon Award

    Golden Crayon Award

    The Early Learning Action Alliance gave me a “Golden Crayon” award for my efforts last session to pass the “Early Start” bill. The bill had a lot of moving parts, but the main idea was to focus on improving the quality of the childcare we have now so that we reap the benefits down the road in…

  • Roundtable Urges Transportation Investment

    Crosscut reported today on a press conference by Steve Mullin, the head of the Washington Roundtable urging the Legislature to pass a transportation package, and touting a Boston Consulting Group study that the package would generate a lot of economic activity in the next 30 years – far more than the cost of the projects.…

  • Teen Births Decline!

    Teen Births Decline!

    I got email from one of our regular contributors yesterday that wanted us to follow Colorado’s example in reducing teenage births in Washington. Since 2008 teenage births (to women age 15-19) have declined almost 40% in Colorado, an amazing statistic. The website this is from (www.popconnect.org) claims this has saved Colorado $41 million in that…