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USDA set to cut $1B for food programs. WA food banks are worried
Local banks are already struggling to meet demand, and federal cuts could mean empty shelves for the 1 in 4 Washingtonians who visited one last year.
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WA environmental legislation passed this year that you should know
Bills to standardize recycling statewide, tweak the state’s cap-and-invest program and allow fusion energy development all made it through this session.
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Voters renew property tax for King County fingerprinting system
Residents voted 59.7% to 40.3% Tuesday night to continue funding a database of three million prints used by local law enforcement and government agencies.
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WA asylum seekers, lawyers receive emails ordering they leave U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security’s letters were not addressed to any specific names and started with “It is time for you to leave the United States.”
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How will tariffs impact WA’s trade-dependent agriculture industry?
Washington fruit growers were hit hard by Trump’s first-term tariffs, and experts and legislators fear further erosion of trust with trading partners.