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Ferguson names new WA top health official

Jun. 9—Washington state will get a new secretary of health in less than a month. Dennis Worsham is currently the director of the Snohomish County Health Department, and will bring more than 32 years of public health experience when he steps up to lead the state Department of Health. He begins July 7, and will become the state's third health secretary in six years. "I am honored to serve and ...
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As Washington Democratic lawmakers slam ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ NW Republicans back it while acknowledging imperfections

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with less than a month before Republicans’ self-imposed July 4 deadline to pass President Donald Trump’s signature bill, extending tax cuts and increasing spending on immigration enforcement and the military while cutting spending on health care and food assistance.
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Sex offense treatment limited at McNeil Island detention center

The Department of Social and Health Services is providing just two hours of weekly group treatment for residents of a secure island facility used to detain and rehabilitate people with a history of sex crimes — a fraction of what state officials and national experts consider acceptable and of what was offered just nine months ago.
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After Trump administration axes $500 million from Washington dam project, Patty Murray says she won’t let it happen again

WASHINGTON – The most fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government each year, typically through a bipartisan process that distributes dollars more or less evenly between red states and blue states. But a dustup over a dam construction project in Washington state has thrown a wrench into that process and raised the stakes of a government funding showdown in September.
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Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington delegation urge president to reconsider major disaster declaration for November ‘Bomb Cyclone’

May 26—Last week, U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, joined the entire Washington state congressional delegation in sending a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to reconsider the denial of Washington state's request for a major disaster declaration as a result of the devastating windstorms, heavy rainfall, flooding and mudslides caused by a bomb cyclone in November 2024. ...