Sunday Spin: Suggestions for the Legislature no one asked for 1
OLYMPIA -- A task force might be studying ways to improve the Legislature. No one asked my, but here are my suggestions.
OLYMPIA -- A task force might be studying ways to improve the Legislature. No one asked my, but here are my suggestions.
OLYMPIA -- Revenge porn may be more common than you think, a House committee was told.
OLYMPIA -- Major changes to the state's medical marijuana laws passed the Senate today despite critics' complaints about a database for patients.
OLYMPIA -- A House committee takes up bills on "revenge porn", another Senate committee talks about pot bills, and the full Senate takes up bills this morning.
OLYMPIA – Bipartisan negotiations may have broken the Senate gridlock over how to fix problems with the state’s roads and bridges, generating a plan to spend nearly $15 billion over 16 years, including about $970 million in the Spokane area.
Are you happy with the direction the city is going, with the productive tension between the mayor and city council? What about the $150 million cut from the city's massive effort to prevent sewage from entering the Spokane River? Do you think the mayor's pay...
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee continued to hedge on his preference for expanded medical education in Spokane, saying today he wouldn't promise to sign or threaten to veto bills that would give WSU legal authority to start its own med school.
OLYMPIA -- A committee may vote on whether to sent two minimum wage restriction bills to the full Senate this afternoon.
Should potlucks be counted, too?
OLYMPIA -- Washington State University's plans for a medical school in Spokane took a second step forward today as a Senate panel passed the bill that gives its regents the authority to pursue that.
OLYMPIA -- A bill that would allow WSU to start a medical school in Spokane passed a House committee on a 12-1 vote.
OLYMPIA -- A version of the WSU medical school bill is scheduled for votes in each chamber's Higher Education Committee.
OLYMPIA – Family and friends of a woman killed by her husband at a Spokane hospital last July tried to make it clear Monday that they are not anti-gun. They are pro warning.
At a packed house meeting Sunday night, more than a hundred residents vowed to fight a proposed three-story apartment complex near Wandermere Golf Course.
OLYMPIA -- A busy week of committee hearings, including gun laws, motorcycle helmets, texting-while driving. And the WSU med school bill is scheduled for a vote in the House Higher Education Committee Tuesday morning. A few people in Spokane are apparently interested in that one.
Heard around the Legislature last week.
OLYMPIA – Early February is usually my favorite time of a long legislative session. No matter how pressing the state’s problems might be on issues like educating kids or finding space for the mentally ill that doesn’t involve a handcuff, a gurney and an emergency room hallway, there’s always time for less weighty subjects.
OLYMPIA -- A committee vote on the WSU medical school legislation was delayed this morning. Official reason was too many bills on the agenda to get to it. But there's also some behind-the-scenes jockeying over amendments.
The Washington Post mentions Spokane, and it's not even a dig.
OLYMPIA -- The House Higher Ed Committee has the WSU medical school proposal on its agenda this morning.
OLYMPIA –Two of the most contentious issues in rural Eastern Washington, wildfires and wolves, are generating demands for change and a stream of legislative proposals. The chairman of the committee handling both issues said he'll try to work with sponsors to craft compromise legislation on each.
OLYMPIA -- Critters are on legislators' minds this afternoon, as a House committee takes up wolf legislation and a Senate committee deals with protections for whales and dolphins.
OLYMPIA – Bosses could pay teen workers less in the summer or whenever they start a new job, under a pair of bills aired in a contentious Senate committee hearing Wednesday.
OLYMPIA -- The Senate unanimously passes a bill legalizing industrial hemp, and committees take up topics ranging from minimum wages for teens to charges for electronic public records
On the heels of the recent resignation of Jan Quintrall for buying city employees food and beverages using a city credit card, Spokane Councilwoman Karen Stratton has filed legislation to officially set how much staffers can be reimbursed for meals. The bill says that city...
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