Given the issues the state has seen with the Employment Security Department, and the Obama-era healthcare exchange before that, critics are doubtful the state could manage a bank
Truth in Accounting used a method to determine what each taxpayer's 'debt' to the state is, and then used that to assign grades of preparedness to each state. WA gets a "D"
You may have forgotten about this one, but recently Gov. Inslee will be spending taxpayer money to remove all "gender-biased" language from state literature, namely, the word "man."