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