Interesting fact, according to the hard-working House Judiciary research staff: All 50 states grant some form of privilege for clergy-penitent communications. In other words, no one can compel a member of the clergy to tell investigators -- or anyone else -- about what is said…
"I don't want it to be collegial. I want it to be a lot more hostile." --Initiative promoter Tim Eyman, on the mutual praise between State Auditor Brian Sonntag and the state Department of General Administration during the first of a long series of new…
Three years after the state Supreme Court ruled that it's unconstitutional for companies or nonprofits to use prison-inmate labor, lawmakers want to rewrite that 118-year-old clause of the constitution.The workers are paid for their time – although more than half of that money can be…
"It's gone on too far. If I knock on one more door during the next election campaign and have people laughing when I talk about the North South Corridor, it won't be good."-- Sen. Chris Marr, D-Spokane, on the same topic.
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