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Inside the high-stakes chess match over school funding
After a long wait, the debate over state education funding got underway in earnest last week, as Democrats grappled with
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Drive now, talk later: Lawmakers look at traffic safety
A pair of road-safety proposals — one increasing penalties for drunk driving, the other aimed at unleashing police on distracted drivers
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Seattle judge blocks Trump's immigration ban
When Judge James Robart announced this afternoon that he would be ruling from the bench, the crowd gathered in his
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State Senate and EPA: Can Doug Ericksen balance it all?
The Trump administration has already directly affected Washington’s lawmakers in at least one way: Wednesday, the state Senate found
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Take my gun: Bill aims to stop suicides
State lawmakers are looking at a bill to let Washingtonians experiencing depression or suicidal thoughts voluntarily block themselves from buying