Biotech has been good to Washington; now state needs to be good to it. Seattle Times Sep 29 2002 11:02AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
This state is making it more and more difficult to make a go of it in biotech. You need a high powered research community but moneys to the UW are dwindling. And it is going to be as difficult to get into the UW as some of the most elite private universities, since the UW can not expand to meet the needs and hot build more universities. Without a continuing input of new research, biotech here will stagnate. Biotech in Seattle happened because scientists at the UW and the Hutch did not want to leave the area. They were not lured here for the biotech, first. If those scientists go elsewhere, so will the industry. People and businesses in Washington are some of the most highly taxed. The state constitution says that education is the pre-emeinant purpose of the state government, yet it refuses to fully fund education. Penny wise and pound foolish, we shall find ourselves in the near future with no Boeing (because the traffic is so bad), no Microsoft (cheaper to program in INdia) and no biotech (lots of states provide similar research opportunities with less taxes and lower living expenses. AIr conditioning can overcome a multitude of sins). 11:48:47 PM 
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