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WA lawmakers look to fix climate while solving the housing crisis
Efforts to expand the state’s green building rules would, among other things, phase out gas heat and appliances in most homes and businesses.
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King County to reexamine decades-old bicyclist helmet law
The move by the King County Board of Health comes after a Crosscut report showing disproportionate enforcement toward homeless people.
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Can King County keep using empty hotels to fight homelessness?
Providers have used area hotels and motels as a stopgap since the pandemic began. Their future use is unclear.
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Update: Plans to tax the rich advancing in WA Legislature in 2021
Wealth tax, capital gains tax, payroll tax — what’s the difference? We break it down.
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Teens pushing WA Legislature to ban retail puppy sales
Bellevue teens who love dogs take their advocacy work to Olympia to propose a bill and see it through.