Sunday, October 21, 2012

Signs of hope on the road to doom | Jerry Large | The Seattle Times

Signs of hope on the road to doom | Jerry Large | The Seattle Times:


Signs of hope on the road to doom

Policy-driven by data and results could overcome the usual politics.
Seattle Times staff columnist

A lot of problems that seem unending do have solutions. You may not hear about them in a political debate, but they exist.
Washington state is brimming with ideas that could make the future better than the present.
No, I'm not on happy drugs. If anything, I'm probably more likely than you to think we're speeding down the highway toward doom. Living immersed in the news can nurture that feeling.
But I see a lot of reminders of people building alternate routes. And they are more than isolated cases of good sense put to work; they are part of a growing reliance on evidence-based and research-based approaches to a whole range of issues from education to crime, from health care to 

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