Opinion
Budget standoff leads to unplanned departures | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Consequences of state lawmakers’ inability to bridge their differences, preventing passage of a capital budget and…
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Nonbinding advice | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Voters never got a chance to try to overturn new laws increasing the state property tax…
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Raging over new road rules | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — The state’s new law targeting distracted drivers sure is irritating folks.
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Compromise deal proves elusive | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Wednesday arrived with a sense of possibility that lawmakers could solve the two remaining riddles in…
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Agreement on state budget nears | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — One of the last pieces of the budget puzzle snapped into place Tuesday, sealed in Republican…
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School funding and tax debate continues as government shutdown nears | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Any day now lawmakers will reveal how they solved the McCleary Rubik’s Cube.
Opinion
Taking control of sessions gone amok | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Washington voters amended the state constitution in 1979 in hopes of bringing discipline to a legislating…
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Here we go again | The Petri Dish
The process of shutting down state government is under way, again.
Opinion
Third week, monumental inactivity | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Not a whole lot is going on around the Capitol these days as the first not-so-special…
Opinion
Dumping Trump off the 2020 ballot | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — Some Democratic lawmakers want to know if they can legally keep President Donald Trump’s name off…
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See you at the ballot box | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — In the stack of bills awaiting Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature is what one supporter described…
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Get ready for overtime in Olympia | The Petri Dish
OLYMPIA — The countdown to special session is under way.