Skip to content
Friday, July 11, 2025
80°F
Newsletter Contact Us
  • Search
  • Newsletters
  • News
    • News
    • Northwest
    • Submit a Story Idea
    • Submit a Photo
    • Submit a Press Release
  • Business
    • Business
    • Submit Business News
  • Contests
  • Sports
    • Sports
    • Submit Sports Results
  • Life
    • Life
    • Submit a Wedding Announcement
    • Submit an Engagement Announcement
    • Submit a Birth Announcement
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Letters
    • Submit a Letter to the Editor
  • Obituaries
    • Obituaries
    • Place an Obituary
  • Classifieds
    • Classifieds
    • Place a Classified Ad
    • Employment
    • Real Estate
    • Transportation
    • Legal Notices
    • Place a Legal Notice
  • e-Editions
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
kir-logo
80°F
  • News
  • Sports
  • Life
  • Opinion
  • Contests
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Obituaries
  • Classifieds
  • All Sections
        • News
          • News
          • Northwest
          • Submit a Story Idea
          • Submit a Photo
          • Submit a Press Release
        • Business
          • Business
          • Submit Business News
        • Sports
          • Sports
          • Submit Sports Results
        • Life
          • Life
          • Submit a Wedding Announcement
          • Submit an Engagement Announcement
          • Submit a Birth Announcement
          • Weather
        • Opinion
          • Opinion
          • Letters to the Editor
          • Submit a Letter to the Editor
        • Obituaries
          • Obituaries
          • Place an Obituary
        • Classifieds
          • Classifieds
          • Place a Classified Ad
          • Employment
          • Transportation
          • Legal Notices
          • Place a Legal Notice
        • e-Editions
        • Marketplace
        • Newsletters
Articles by Jerry Cornfield
Marijuana millions getting close look | Cornfield
Marijuana millions getting close look | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • October 3, 2014 8:12 pm

The financial stakes of the state’s new marijuana industry are no longer theoretical. Washington’s chief economist predicts the legal recreational market will generate $636 million for the state through the middle of 2019.

Read Story

Wealthy social changers backing gun restrictions | Cornfield
Wealthy social changers backing gun restrictions | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • September 3, 2014 7:45 pm

Our state’s super wealthy social changers are at it again.

Read Story

Celis aligns himself with political heavyweights | Cornfield
Celis aligns himself with political heavyweights | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • September 3, 2014 6:25 pm

Republican Pedro Celis needs a spark for his congressional campaign and hopes it will come from two men who helped a Tea Party-backed candidate unseat U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Read Story

The disinterest is everywhere in this election | Cornfield
The disinterest is everywhere in this election |...
By Jerry Cornfield • July 30, 2014 6:48 pm

I’ve heard from some eligible voters that they intend to sit this one out and return for the general election in November, “when it matters.”

Read Story

Eyman’s latest initiative fails to get enough support | Cornfield
Eyman’s latest initiative fails to get enough support...
By Jerry Cornfield • July 23, 2014 6:49 pm

Rarely can the lack of action trigger so much reaction as it did this month when Tim Eyman didn’t do something he so often does — turn in signatures for an initiative.

Read Story

Things beginning to heat up in election races, issues | Cornfield
Things beginning to heat up in election races,...
By Jerry Cornfield • July 18, 2014 5:47 pm

Freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene spent a couple of her millions to get into Congress.

Read Story

State Superintendent of Public Instruction focuses on improvement | Cornfield
State Superintendent of Public Instruction focuses on improvement...
By Jerry Cornfield • July 7, 2014 9:44 pm

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn doesn’t want to use the word “failing” when talking about Washington’s public schools.

Read Story

Gov. Inslee is fishing for a solution | Cornfield
Gov. Inslee is fishing for a solution |...
By Jerry Cornfield • July 1, 2014 12:41 pm

Finesse is a word rarely used to describe Gov. Jay Inslee’s approach to fashioning policy.

Read Story

How many lobbyist’s dinners are too many? | Cornfield
How many lobbyist’s dinners are too many? |...
By Jerry Cornfield • June 22, 2014 6:00 am

A panel empowered to guide elected leaders along a righteous path is struggling to draw clear ethical boundaries for lawmakers when dining and drinking with lobbyists.

Read Story

Questions remain for Oso commission | Cornfield
Questions remain for Oso commission | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • June 13, 2014 5:50 pm

Establishing a commission to examine the causes and consequences of the Oso mudslide is taking longer than Snohomish County Executive John Lovick and Gov. Jay Inslee imagined.

Read Story

Jerry Cornfield
State soon will know number of oil tank...
By Jerry Cornfield • May 30, 2014 3:58 pm

By the end of next week, Washington will learn how often tank cars of oil siphoned from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale are getting shipped through the state.

Read Story

Did the State Supreme Court mean what it said for school funding? | Cornfield
Did the State Supreme Court mean what it...
By Jerry Cornfield • May 14, 2014 4:19 pm

Imagine the domed state Capitol as a classroom, with 147 state lawmakers as students, and you may get a better picture of the challenge facing Washington’s Supreme Court this summer.

Read Story

President Barack Obama visited the Oso landslide site this week.
Lessons learned at Oso disaster | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • April 25, 2014 4:19 pm

That venerable adage ‘It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it’ came to mind Tuesday as President Barack Obama departed the Oso firehouse.

Read Story

Will Inslee wield veto pen? | Cornfield
Will Inslee wield veto pen? | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • April 4, 2014 2:18 pm

As Gov. Jay Inslee prepares to sign a revised state budget, he’s getting pressed to veto a few of its provisions.

Read Story

Oso mudslide coverage not easy | Cornfield
Oso mudslide coverage not easy | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • March 31, 2014 2:56 pm

You may notice the daily media briefings on the Oso mudslide getting shorter and tenser with less said and more questions asked.

Read Story

A nine-month breather for Inslee | Cornfield
A nine-month breather for Inslee | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • March 21, 2014 7:35 pm

No one could be happier to see state lawmakers wrap up and head home than Gov. Jay Inslee.

Read Story

What  did legislators do this session? | Cornfield
What did legislators do this session? | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • March 19, 2014 3:10 pm

It is becoming clearer what new laws will emerge from the two-month legislative session.

Read Story

Bill would allow more ads on government websites | Cornfield
Bill would allow more ads on government websites...
By Jerry Cornfield • February 13, 2014 8:25 pm

Thousands of times every day someone visits the websites for the state’s parks system and lottery and flips through several online pages.

Read Story

Inslee can’t throw the switch | Cornfield
Inslee can’t throw the switch | Cornfield
By Jerry Cornfield • February 12, 2014 5:44 pm

Jay Inslee endorsed the death penalty for his entire political career.
But once the Democrat became governor and got his finger on the switch, he realized he couldn’t push it.

Read Story

Governor puts education, taxes back on Legislature’s table | Cornfield
Governor puts education, taxes back on Legislature’s table...
By Jerry Cornfield • February 1, 2014 7:00 am

Gov. Jay Inslee’s call to raise money for schools by closing tax breaks put the education funding debate back in the laps of lawmakers this week and in the conversation with voters this fall.

Read Story

  • 1
  • …
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Last

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to receive updates.

Sign Up

Featured Local Savings

  • News
  • Sports
  • Life
  • Business
  • Opinion
Quicklinks
  • Newsletters
  • Print Editions
  • Media Solutions
About Us
  • About Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Contact Us
kir-logo
  • Sound Publishing Inc. Logo
  • A subsidiary of Black Press Media
  • Work With Us
© 2025 Kirkland Reporter + Sound Publishing + Black Press Media. All Rights Reserved.
Powered By NewzBoost