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2 days ago | 
inlander.com | Don Brunell
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Founded in 1636, Harvard University is facing some of the stiffest challenges in its history.
Although President Donald Trump and Harvard's recent spats make headlines, key issues in question affect all higher education. Harvard, our nation's first college (1636), is a center of current civil disruption and antisemitic behavior.
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2 weeks ago | 
chronline.com | Don Brunell
Too often, elected officials overlook the cumulative costs of regulations, taxes, and fees on taxpayers. However, those added costs come back to bite them hard when people pack up and move, businesses close, or voters take matters into their own hands and pass an initiative or referendum. Consider what has happened in high tax and cost of living states, such as California, New York, Illinois, and Connecticut.
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3 weeks ago | 
bainbridgereview.com | Don Brunell
Too often, elected officials overlook the cumulative costs of regulations, taxes, and fees on taxpayers. However, those added costs come back to bite them hard when people pack up and move, businesses close, or take matters into their own hands and pass an initiative or referendum. Consider what has happened in high-tax and cost-of-living states, such as California, New York, Illinois, and Connecticut.
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4 weeks ago | 
bainbridgereview.com | Don Brunell
Before the Columbia River flood control system, spring blooms often coincided with large, muddy floods inundating communities and farms. While the Midwest, from Minnesota to Louisiana, still faces threats from swollen rivers due to heavy rain and rapid snowmelt, the Columbia River drainage does not. Our abatement efforts started with the completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1942.
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1 month ago | 
spokanejournal.com | Don Brunell
Too often, elected officials overlook the cumulative costs of regulations, taxes, and fees on taxpayers. However, those added costs come back to bite them hard when people pack up and move, businesses close, or voters take matters into their own hands and pass an initiative or referendum. Consider what has happened in high tax and cost of living states, such as California, New York, Illinois, and Connecticut.
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1 month ago | 
bainbridgereview.com | Don Brunell
In August 2002 during one of the worst fire seasons to that point in recent history, President George W. Bush launched the Healthy Forests Initiative aimed at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires. It was a solid, common-sense plan intended to remove wood debris that fuels infernos and rehabilitate diseased, dying and dead forests. It would generate revenue from wood sales that would be used to pay for healthier timberlands.
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1 month ago | 
lyndentribune.com | Don Brunell
Before the Columbia River flood control system, spring blooms often coincided with large muddy floods inundating communities and farms. While Midwest, from Minnesota to Louisiana, still faces threats from swollen rivers due to heavy rain and rapid snowmelt, the Columbia River drainage does not. Our abatement efforts started with the completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1942.
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1 month ago | 
qvpr.com | Don Brunell
As lawmakers meeting in Olympia wind up the 2025 session, they face a whopping $15 billion budget deficit—a situation they must address before adjourning and going home. Unlike Congress, state legislators and Gov. Bob Ferguson cannot authorize deficit spending or borrowing to fund state government. They either raise taxes and fees or cut costs for programs and people.
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2 months ago | 
spokanejournal.com | Karina Elias |Mike McLean |Don Brunell
In August 2002, during one of the worst fire seasons to that point in recent history, President George W. Bush launched the Healthy Forests Initiative, aimed at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires. It was a solid, common-sense plan intended to remove wood debris that fuels infernos and to rehabilitate diseased, dying, and dead forests. It would generate revenue from wood sales, which would be used to pay for healthier timberlands.
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2 months ago | 
tacomaweekly.com | Don Brunell
By Don Brunell
In August 2002 during one of the worst fire seasons to that point in recent history, President George W. Bush launched the Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI) aimed at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
It was a solid, common-sense plan intended to remove wood debris which fuels infernos and rehabilitate diseased, dying, and dead forests. It would generate revenue from wood sales which would be used to pay for healthier timberlands.
