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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.
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Can Washington’s agriculture industry survive on H-2A workers?
Many of the state’s 340,000 undocumented immigrants work in the agricultural sector. For farmers, mass deportation could exacerbate labor shortages.
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Seattleites will vote on competing measures to fund social housing
On February ballots, prop 1A would produce $50M a year from an “excess wealth” tax on businesses. Prop 1B would draw $10M a year from the Jumpstart tax.
Environment
How damming the Columbia River transformed Central Washington
The river's dams drive electricity, flood control and commercial ships, and also helped turn the desert east of the Cascades into fruitful land.
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Amazon offers $334M for nuclear reactors to be built at Hanford
The small modular reactor could reestablish nuclear power as an alternative energy source, with the Washington-based company as its biggest investor.