Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, co-authored an op-ed this week in the Seattle Times with Rep. Steve Conway, D-Tacoma, in which they called for an "honest discussion" about reforming the state's workers' compensation system. You can find it here.

In it they argue that a single proposal to increase rates by 7.6 percent for one of the best performing systems in the country does not demand reform. Cutting benefits "would merely salt the open wounds of families who have lost their source of income at the worst possible time," they write.