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Town Hall Meeting March 16
Join Rep. Ross Hunter with his colleagues, Rep. Cyrus Habib and Sen. Rodney Tom, for the next 48th Legislative District town hall meeting. We’ll cover lots of material and look forward to seeing you. Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013 Time: 10 a.m – noon Place: Redmond City Hall, Council Chamber (15670 NE 85th St Redmond,…
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This week in photos
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Crosscut Event with Ross
CROSSCUT IN OLYMPIA Whet your whistle at the first member event in the capital Please join us for a glass of wine and conversation. Meet Rep. Ross Hunter, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, along with Crosscut’s team of editors and Olympia correspondents, and other state leaders. Crosscut is following this year’s legislative session closely…
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Improving Gun Safety in Washington State
I’ve held off commenting on gun safety because I wanted to think about it for a while after the Sandy Hook incident. Writing new policy in knee-jerk response to a single incident typically is a bad idea. However, there have been enough incidents that I think we need to respond and create a safer place…
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Speech at NW Educational Service District
Slides from today’s discussion. PDF version: Education Funding in 2012 PPT version: Education Funding in 2012 Excel spreadsheet showing examples Excel: Example – Levy Swap
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Black helicopters, other fascinating emails
One of the great joys of being an elected official is the unsolicited email you get from people. The Internet (thank you Al Gore) gives everyone a platform to say whatever they want and broadcast it the world over, for free. My favorite from the last few years was one that was seriously worried about…
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School Funding Reform
I’ve created a new page on my website, not just a blog post, that provides background and current documents on my local levy shift proposal. If you click on Reforming School Funding in Washington in the title bar above you’ll see the page.
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48th Legislative District Town Hall Meeting set for Jan. 4
Sen. Rodney Tom will join Rep. Ross Hunter and Rep. Deb Eddy in a town hall meeting Wednesday, Jan. 4, to discuss the 2012 legislative session. The 48th District lawmakers will solicit constituents’ concerns and priorities and answer questions from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the council chamber room of Bellevue City Hall at…
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Planet Money podcast – I hope it isn’t prescient
NPR’s “Planet Money” show is interesting enough that I listened to it while exercising at the gym today. This may say more about me than about the show, but I find it fascinating. It’s hard to make this stuff interesting and they do a great job. This week they talk about Japan’s “lost decade” of…
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Amazing Foster Kids
This morning I attended the Foster Youth and Alumni Leadership Summit put on by The Mockingbird Society. This was one of the most amazing presentations I’ve ever attended. Groups of foster youth from each of the regions spend the conference organizing presentations on how to improve the foster care experience. The presentations were powerful, as…