His political machine is running full steam.
Will the $500,000 investment be enough to get the initiative on a ballot?
NRA leaders will need to decide if it’s worth putting resources into a fight in a Left Coast state versus investing in efforts to keep Republicans in control of Congress to prevent ideas like this initiative from becoming federal law.
Olympia
Kim Wyman is asking Gov. Jay Inslee for the authority to reimburse counties for postal costs.
They’re talking 15 percent for all certificated staff and 37 percent for the classified education support professionals they represent.
Can lawmakers and the governor honestly contend public schools are fully funded and done with McCleary when some school districts still are stressed out and stretched out financially?
“When you have Republicans and Democrats in the same room there will always be three sides. The Republican perspective. The Democrat perspective and what actually transpired.”
They really weren’t against lowering the tax .
Two dozen people tasked by the Legislature to provide guidance gathered for a final time in November to settle on recommendations.
It will be illegal in Washington to sell or own devices that make semiautomatic guns fire more rapidly.
Here are a few other things lawmakers have done or may do before the session ends March 8.
The Senate and House disagree over whether lost revenue from a lower fee should be offset right away.
It should result in reduction of the cost of vehicle licenses. The bill now goes to the state House.
Meantime, news organizations, including this one, have agreed to pause a lawsuit over access.
Last June, at the end of a gnarly session, lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee boosted the state’s portion of the rate by 30 percent to a flat $2.70 per $1,000 of assessed value. It marked the largest one-time rate increase in state history.
Their warnings fell on deaf ears, but the tables have turned on the fish farming industry in Washington.
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Democrat Frank Chopp has had the speaker title since 1999, and he says he’s not retiring this year.
