OLYMPIA – Washington’s new state budget signed into law this week relies on the expansion of Medicaid, both to provide health insurance to hundreds of thousands of people and to help balance its bottom line. But state residents will have to wait until October to…
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee's recent press conferences have been a mix of the good and the bad from the late legislative session. Yay for the billion added to public schools, the tuition freeze for colleges, expanded health care, the social service programs included in…
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