Topics & places

Six frontiers, one state.

We organize our work around the questions that decide whether Washington stays the best place in America to build a life. Pick a frontier.

Economy & Innovation

How Washington builds, scales, and keeps the next generation of companies — from Spokane to the Sound.

— The 47 Index: Spring Briefing

— AI in the Real World

Abundance, affordability, and the design of places people actually want to live.

— The Housing Unlock

Talent pipelines, apprenticeships, and the institutions that make opportunity portable.

— The Apprenticeship State

Grids, ports, broadband, and transit — the physical layer of a state that works.

— The Grid That Says Yes

— The Cascadia Corridor

Forests, salmon, water, and working lands — stewardship that pays for itself.

— Salmon Economics

State capacity, permitting, and the unglamorous machinery of getting things done.

— Permitting Is State Capacity