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Bad credit shouldn't mean higher insurance rates, WA official says
State regulators say the current system leads to low-income people and people of color paying more, and is bad policy in a pandemic.
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Opinion
In Washington state, housing is the question and the answer
The pandemic reminds us that home is central to civic life. It's time we made housing security a social right for all.
politics
Meet the Black women who made historic gains in WA politics in 2020
The number of Black women in Washington’s Legislature will triple next year, and the state just elected a Black woman to Congress for the first time.
politics
Late Republican ballots thwart Democratic gains in WA Legislature
Several races where Democrats led on election night have since flipped to the GOP, leaving the overall balance of power in Olympia unchanged.
Equity
A Skagit Valley attack brings WA hate crime laws into question
As a group of lawmakers and advocates work on a new hate crime law, a community debates whether one attack should qualify as a hate crime.