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Washington scrambles to boost supply of life-saving protective items for healthcare workers
The Bainbridge Island Review site has lifted the paywall on this developing story to provide readers with critical…
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State requires sex ed, takes gun safety measures, bans free plastic bags | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - At the end of the state legislative session this month, lawmakers had passed nearly 400 bills…
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Senate and house dispute kills data privacy bill | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Groundbreaking data privacy legislation designed to give consumers more access and control over their own digital…
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Scores of people show up in protest over Legislature’s sex education directive | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Despite the governor’s warning to avoid crowds in the wake of the coronavirus, hundreds of concerned…
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Legislature promotes timber industry as carbon-negative | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Washington state lawmakers have passed legislation that will align the timber and forestry sector with the…
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Amid pious protesters, Satanists conduct a ritual on the Capitol steps | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Congregants from the Seattle-based Satanic Temple of Washington drew a crowd of prayerful onlookers Friday as…
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Vice President arrives with federal health experts to ‘epicenter’ of U.S. coronavirus outbreak
On the day Washington state recorded its 11th death from the COVID-19 virus, Vice President Mike Pence arrived…
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Fragile elderly at the hub of Washington’s COVID-19 crisis
A week into the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus at a facility caring for frail and elderly people,…
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State steps up response to coronavirus outbreak | 2020 Legislative Session
Fourteen schools temporarily closed due to outbreak concerns
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Senators balance transportation budget despite revenue shortfall caused by I-976 | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Facing a shortfall of $450 million, lawmakers patched together a budget to fund highway maintenance, the…
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Senate Republicans propose alternative solutions to Washington’s homelessness crisis | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Republican senators pitched their own ideas to address Washington state’s homelessness crisis following the supplemental budgets…
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Senate Democrats propose $5 million to assist businesses disrupted by coronavirus pandemic fears | 2020 Legislative Session
OlYMPIA - A last-minute amendment to the senate Democratic Caucus supplemental operating budget earmarks $5 million to help…
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GOP leadership doubts effectiveness of proposed homelessness spending | 2020 Legislative Session
OLYMPIA - Republican leaders in Washington state said they are not confident that spending on homelessness proposed by…