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Poll: WA isn’t as optimistic as it was six months ago
Pessimism rose despite more residents saying they’re likely to get vaccinated, a new Crosscut/Elway Poll finds.
Melissa Santos
Melissa Santos is formerly a Crosscut staff reporter who covered state politics and the Legislature. She came to Crosscut from The Seattle Times editorial board, where she wrote columns and opinion pi
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Despite law, 20 WA counties don’t offer public-option health plans
Now, legislators think they have a fix to bring the public-option law they passed two years ago to every county.
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Eight big things the Washington State Legislature passed in 2021
A new capital-gains tax, a slate of police accountability bills and new limits on carrying guns at protests are just a few of the things that state lawmakers approved.
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That voting-rights bill Congress rejected? Most of it is WA law
With mail-in voting and same-day voter registration “we really are ahead of the curve,” one state lawmaker says.