Who’s In Charge Here? Checks and Balances During a State of Emergency
By Thom Little, Ph.D. On February 29, 2020, Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency in response to new cases of COVID-19, directing [...]
Convening During the Coronavirus
By Thom Little, Ph.D. America is a representative democracy. Voters elect people who meet together to debate and discuss bills and then vote in the [...]
The Time That Has Been Given to Us
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Like most of you, I am now spending the vast majority of my time at home. However, I have been doing [...]
Leading Through Crisis
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Last Fall, SLLF hosted “Testing Your Mettle: Leading Through Crisis” at the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas where we [...]
Framing America’s Future: The Importance of Compromise
By Thom Little, Ph.D. For several months now, all of us at the State Legislative Foundation have been focused on our first educational program of [...]
The Listener of the House!
By Thom Little, Ph.D. This past weekend, SLLF held its last meeting of the year, the Board Meeting and Leadership Roundtable, in beautiful Clearwater Beach, [...]
Bridging the Divide with Just a Cup of Coffee
By Thom Little, Ph.D. America is a divided nation. Everybody knows that. Everything we read and everything we hear or watch tells us that. We [...]
Governor “Butch” Otter’s Four C’s of Decisionmaking
By Thom Little, Ph.D Coming to you from Gate B18 at the Boise Airport in Boise, Idaho, headed home after a great couple of days [...]
Finding Your Passion: Could Public Service Be Your Second Mountain?
By Thom Little, Ph.D. When my daughter Virginia was five years old, we signed her up for one-week ballet camp during the summer. We knew [...]
