Lots of developments on the transportation front, including a terrifying NY Times article about gas tax shortfalls nationally and (here's the terrifying part) Virginia governor [...]

Our test-run initiative (I-1271, full text here) has now received a ballot title and summary, which are the items that appear on the ballot. (The [...]

Here's the bill draft in both PDF and Word. And here's the Letter of Recommendation with comments and suggested edits from the Code Revisers Office. [...]

Linked here. Comments welcome!

I came across (at the 14 minute mark of this lecture) a quote attributed to 19th century physicist John Tyndall: [T]he atmosphere admits of the [...]

A busy few days: A great article in the Whitman College newspaper by student Sam Chapman. And David Frum on CNN.com. And Sightline's Anna Fahey [...]

Last night I moderated a panel at SPU with UW climate scientist Mike Wallace, Washington Policy Center environment director Todd Myers, and Bob Inglis, formerly [...]

Here's the presentation (PPTx) we gave today to the executive committee of the state Labor Council. (Note that some of the slides are grayed out, [...]

Here's the latest 2-pager on the Green Economy / Transportation option. Eric de Place and Ian Siadak at Sightline have a great new post about [...]