The Atlantic: on Budget & Economy

Amy Klobuchar: Focus on issues affecting small business, rural America

This is a political movement that started here, and it was a movement that said small farms matter, small businesses matter, entrepreneurship matters, that's the engine, this is why our Founding Fathers moved from England, because they didn't want to be controlled by monopolies and the East India Company, and when they did they got really mad and threw the tea into the water. Heartland economics is a focus on rural economics, which is very different in terms of critical access to hospitals, broadband, and making sure that [rural Americans] can have a piece of the action.

Jay Inslee: Leading state in job growth & personal-income growth

Opponents say, "Market forces, consumer demands, commonsense policies would have done about the same thing that we've had under six years of Jay Inslee."