OLYMPIA – On the final day of the 2018 Legislative Session, lawmakers approved a last-minute supplemental budget deal that funnels…
OLYMPIA – In a last-minute effort lawmakers, cops and community activists reached a deal on lowering the legal standard for…
OLYMPIA – House Democrats passed a controversial bill that restructures how home healthcare workers contract with the state despite all…
OLYMPIA – An amended version of Governor Jay Inslee’s proposal to tax carbon emissions to fight climate change is effectively…
OLYMPIA – In a down-to-the-wire decision, Governor Jay Inslee vetoed a controversial bill that would have immediately exempted the state…
OLYMPIA – Following last week’s rapid-fire vote on a bill to exempt the Legislature from state public records laws, lawmakers…
All three 23rd District lawmakers — Sen. Christine Rolfes, and Rep. Drew Hansen and Rep. Sherry Appleton — voted to approve the bill.
OLYMPIA – State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are pushing a bill to exempt themselves from public records…
OLYMPIA – Democrats in both chambers of the state Legislature are at odds over adding more funding to public education…
OLYMPIA – State economists project that over a billion dollars in additional tax revenue will be flowing into government accounts…
OLYMPIA – While state Democrats push a set of labor-union backed bills, Republicans decry the effort as special-interest politics.
OLYMPIA – At the request of Gov. Jay Inslee, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the state Capitol…
OLYMPIA – A bill that would tax oil in pipelines to fund oil spill prevention planning passed out of a…
