Snohomish County gets $166,000, but if turnout is high this year, it might cost more.
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What we do know is that he’s off to Iowa in June to deliver the keynote address at a party fundraiser.
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The conservative activist’s self-financing claim points to a lack of deep-pocketed donors.
Olympia
Kim Wyman is asking Gov. Jay Inslee for the authority to reimburse counties for postal costs.
Analysis
It was not always a civil process, but two diametrically opposed groups managed to find common ground.
It will be illegal in Washington to sell or own devices that make semiautomatic guns fire more rapidly.
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.
Analysis
What did they do, and what matters to you?
The task is simpler than it sounds.
Q&A
Democrat Frank Chopp has had the speaker title since 1999, and he says he’s not retiring this year.
News Analysis
It was the centerpiece of the governor’s crusade against climate change. Now it’s gone.
Analysis
If legislators don’t act on the governor’s legislation, a plan could land on the November ballot.
Analysis
In his State-of-the-State address, the governor made the case for an ambitious carbon tax.
Rep. Suzan DelBene’s amendments to restore deductions, that the bill does away with, were rejected.
Democrats went to bed Tuesday night confidently declaring their party will control the levers of legislating in state government by the end of the month.… Continue reading
OLYMPIA — When the legal battle on education funding returns to the state Supreme Court Tuesday, the leader of Washington’s public school system will be… Continue reading
Some hope that a Democratic victory in the Senate race will spur a bipartisan Hirst compromise.
But they didn’t ask for testimony from the transportation committee members who negotiated the bill.
