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Jeff Rhodes
Vice President for News and Information
Jeff is a native of West Virginia and a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in journalism. He served in the U.S. Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., as a broadcast journalist and has worked at a number of newspapers in West Virginia and Washington.
Most recently, he spent 11 years as editor of the Port Orchard (Wash.) Independent, which earned the 2011 Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s General Excellence Award as the top community newspaper in Washington.
Previously, he was editor of the Business Examiner newspaper in Tacoma, Wash., for seven years.
Jeff lives in Lacey; he and his wife have grown twin daughters.
Dissenting Judge in Boardman Lawsuit Had It Exactly Right
In Boardman v. Inslee, a split panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week said it violated neither the law nor the Constitution for a public-sector union to deceive voters and abuse Washington’s initiative process in order to achieve what it couldn’t in litigation or through the Legislature.
Lies, Intimidation Triumph Over Transparency in Whatcom County
The residents of Whatcom County (Wash.) on Oct. 13 were denied a common-sense government transparency reform when county commissioners there succumbed to a full-court press from union operatives more interested in spinning wild conspiracy theories than relying on fact or reason.
Freedom Foundation Helps Foil Seattle’s Income Tax Scheme
The Washington State Supreme Court on Friday respected almost a century of case law — and the repeatedly expressed will of state residents — by slapping down the city of Seattle’s brazenly unconstitutional income tax proposal.
Seattle Times, Spokesman-Review Chronicle Freedom Foundation’s Outreach to Teachers
Newspapers in Washington’s two largest cities published features during January about the Freedom Foundation’s latest outreach effort to the state’s teachers.
Thanksgiving: The Holiday That Mirrors the Freedom Foundation’s Ideals
It’s a profound tragedy that American children aren’t taught the true lesson of Thanksgiving — one that reinforces the values of hard work and self-sufficiency reluctantly embraced by the Pilgrims and on which the nation they helped settle ultimately became the strongest, most prosperous on earth.
WSJ Article Links Union Defections to Outreach, Highlights Freedom Foundation Efforts
An article on the Nov. 21 Wall Street Journal underscores what the Freedom Foundation’s experience has shown
Freedom Foundation taps Withe to head nationwide expansion
The Freedom Foundation has announced plans to share its message of worker rights with an even wider audience and named a point man to lead the effort.
Freedom Foundation Celebrates Success
Fox News host Laura Ingraham called the Freedom Foundation a “great organization” and told a sold-out ballroom full of well-wishers attending the group’s annual banquet she was proud of the great work it does.
Unions and The Participation Trophy Paradox
A friend of mine this week posted a meme on Facebook that observed, “I’m so old I remember when you had to actually win something to get a trophy.”
Huckabee to Headline Freedom Foundation’s Oregon Banquet
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who hosts his own TV show, Huckabee, will be the keynote speaker at the annual banquet for the organization’s Oregon operation on Nov. 9th at the Salem Convention Center.
