Washington Business Winter 2026

Winter 2026

State’ s Business Climate Threatens Job Creation

New report: Putting a price tag on cost of regulations, p. 36

New sales tax on services: A hasty tax hits hard, p. 42

Kris Johnson: People are voting with their feet, p. 13

in their words

University Presidents

A Q & A with WSU’ s Betsy Cantwell and UW’ s Robert J. Jones