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Intrnationally renowned policy expert Wendell Cox and WSDOT's tolling director Craig Stone spoke at our annual Transportation Lunch last week. Video of their presentations is now available online.

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Westin Makes the Free-Market Green Choice
By Todd Myers
Saturday, May 19, 2012
If you have stayed at a hotel recently, you have seen a card in the bathroom exhorting you to help the planet by reusing your towels, thus reducing the amount of water, energy and detergent used by the hotel. Such appeals are typically based on guilt - you reuse the towels and the hotel receives the financial benefit. The success of such efforts, however, is tenuous because it is entirely contingent on the convenience and good will of the guests. Westin Hotels, however, have harnessed the free market to find a better way.
10 city studies validate Mariners' transportation concerns in SODO
By Michael Ennis
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Officials with the Port of Seattle, King County Council, and the Seattle Mariners’ front office have raised several transportation-related issues in south downtown Seattle (SODO) as city officials fast track an agreement for a new sports arena. Their concerns are about traffic congestion, freight mobility and parking. On the other hand, city officials downplay the significance of the transportation issues in SODO and continue to move forward on an agreement that would prematurely bind city taxpayers to the financial arrangements.
Washington state has not turned its back on charter public schools
By Liv Finne
Monday, May 14, 2012
Melissa Westbrook, a Seattle school blogger, is spreading disinformation about Washington state’s education reform environment.  In a May 3rd article on a Washington Post blog with a bias against charter public schools, Ms. Westbrook pronounced that Washington State has deliberately said “no” to charter public schools and other reforms.  Ms.
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