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Gov. Jay Inslee will get the 2016 session of the Legislature into high gear with his State of the State
Joe Copeland
Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi
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