Washington State – Where Ideas Converge and Merge
July 27, 2023
By Washington State Department of Commerce
Washington is something of an anomaly. Deviation from the norm and embracing the unexpected is so deeply ingrained in the culture and the people that it permeates every aspect of the economy.
Blame it on being late to the statehood party or the state’s once remote location in Upper Left U.S.A. Early settlers had to rely on one another to survive (with a lot of help from the indigenous people who had lived in the region for thousands of years). Everything and everyone came from someplace else and it ...
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