WPC Magazine Winter 2024

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  1. 1. Reason given by Inslee administration for shutting down drive-in theaters and outdoor waterslide businesses
  2. 2. In Washington state, this person decides when there is a state of emergency AND when it should end
  3. 4. Advocates for your values every day; Abbr.
  4. 7. “The oil and gas industry projections around any of this are halfway between _____ and baloney."
  5. 9. Washington state & local regulations are estimated to add $144,000 to the cost of a new, median priced ______
  6. 10. The type of tax every state but Washington considers a capital gains tax
  7. 15. Rounded to the nearest hundred, the number of days Washington was under a state of emergency for the pandemic
  8. 16. Increases with higher property taxes
  9. 18. The founder of this company moved to Florida to escape the capital gains income tax
  10. 20. Farmers now qualify for this based on the illegal collection of the tax on gas from the CCA
  11. 21. Citizen-driven proposal that can become law with enough signatures
  12. 22. Governor Inslee's requirements for new ferry construction
  13. 23. Three kinds: Collusion, Efficiency, Coercive
  14. 25. Data shows salmon recovery would be aided by culling the population of these
  15. 27. High enough for the state to add $2 billion in spending to the current budget.
  16. 28. Washington State Supreme Court decision that required greater education revenues from the state
  17. 30. Not Microsoft’s search engine, this Bing was born in Tacoma
  18. 32. Its West Seattle link estimated cost has jumped $2.5 billion but construction hasn't started
  19. 33. Closing day of the legislative session
  20. 34. Law restricting urban sprawl and rural development; Abbr.
  21. 35. SCOTUS decision affirming first amendment right of public employees not to join a union
  22. 36. True or false: the minority party in the state legislature can use a filibuster to stop legislation they object to
  23. 37. Clean energy source in which Microsoft is investing for data centers
  24. 40. Spokane university known for its basketball team, the Bulldogs
Down
  1. 1. The Climate Commitment Act's decarbonization grant doesn't even prioritize its reduction
  2. 3. Iconic Riverside Park landmark with hourly chimes in Spokane
  3. 5. A form of public school that operates outside of union restrictions
  4. 6. Number of state environmental metrics achieved in Governor Inslee's accountability plan
  5. 8. A deadly drug contributing to cheap highs, elevated crime and homelessness
  6. 11. A kind of elevated train on a single track that crashed in Seattle
  7. 12. Better solutions than government
  8. 13. Iconic aerospace company founded in Seattle
  9. 14. A tax that should be repealed; or death tax
  10. 17. Former Washington three-term governor with a namesake public policy school at UW
  11. 19. Fourteen a week vanished from Washington in the last five years.
  12. 24. You can do it at a trot or a gallop or real slow for the sake of your heart
  13. 26. Former Democratic Governor who worked with WPC on her Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Panel
  14. 29. How state worker contract negotiations should be
  15. 31. Between 96 and 98 percent successfully pass each lower Snake River dam.
  16. 38. Neighbors to our east
  17. 39. Paid Family and Medical Leave and Washington Cares are both funded by this kind of tax on workers