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Confirmed: Republicans were $1 billion short on school funding
Republican state senators knew all along they’d have to come up with some extra money to pay for education,
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A future star in Olympia?
It’s mid-morning, and Sen. Rebecca Saldaña is in her office, listening to a briefing from a nonprofit. Somewhere nearby,
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Deadly force bill blows key deadline
The fate of a proposal to change Washington law on police use of deadly force dimmed Friday afternoon, as it
Dave Reichert speaks to constituents, kind of
When U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert appeared on a KCTS 9 livestream Thursday, his message for those constituents demanding he
Patty Murray looks at next steps for resistance
Reflecting what seems to be an unwritten Democratic pledge of reasonability-above-all-else, two prominent progressive Democrats from Washington state Wednesday signaled