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WA lawmakers work to keep public records from the public — again
The Washington Legislature's third attempt in a decades-long battle against transparency is — like the previous efforts — not going smoothly.
Joseph O’Sullivan
Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. Before that, he c
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