Supply chain woes, barren shelves, inflation steadily creeping upwards and unemployment still hovering around 4 percent might make you think 2021 wasn’t the best year to start a new business. But don’t tell that to the hundreds of individuals receiving new business licenses last year in Clark County.
Bill looking to reopen Washington divides business owners, health care workers by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | January 22, 2021 09:30 AM Print this article
A bipartisan bill in the Washington Legislature seeking to reopen much of the state is driving a wedge between business owners and frontline health care workers exhausted by pandemic.
Effective January 11, Inslee moved the state to a phased
reopening plan requiring counties to meet four health metrics to progress between phases.
Those metrics include two-week declines in new COVID-19 cases and hospital admission rates per 100,000 people in addition to week-long positivity rates of less than 10% and ICU bed capacity of less than 90%.