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Healthier flame retardants: Will Legislature finally protect kids, families?
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to ban flame retardants linked to cancer, learning disabilities and other health problems from
Allegra Abramo
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New 'purple card' system would help people with dementia
Like many people caring for someone with dementia, Madeleine Fraley often found herself awkwardly trying to explain why her husband,
politics
Birth control, women's health issues at play in Olympia
Call it the year of the uterus. At least a dozen bills on a range of women’s reproductive health
politics
Using tech to fight opioid addiction
This story has been updated to reflect the Senate's passage of the bill, sending it to Gov. Jay
Equity
Will the Legislature do what’s needed for foster care?
Republicans and Democrats in Olympia insist they want to shore up the state’s failing foster care system, but major