The state Commission on Judicial Conduct today decided to censure -- or officially call on the carpet for a in-person reprimand -- former Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Collen Hartl.Hartl violated the code of judicial conduct, both sides agreed, when she had a sexual encounter…
Staff writer Carley Dryden has a story today about the Whitman County city of Pullman possibly following in Seattle's footsteps and instituting a 20-cents-each tax on plastic shopping bags.Washington State University professor Elizabeth Siler's promoting the idea, after counting 55 plastic bags littering a stretch…
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