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.
Spin Control archive for Jan. 1, 2015
SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 2015
FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 2015
House panel tries to blend 2 revenge porn bills
OLYMPIA -- Revenge porn may be more common than you think, a House committee was told.
Senate passes medical marijuana changes
OLYMPIA -- Major changes to the state's medical marijuana laws passed the Senate today despite critics' complaints about a database for patients.
WALeg Day 33: Revenge porn, pot and Senate action 2
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.
THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 2015
WALeg Day 32: $15B Senate transportation package starts its engine
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.
Tune in to "Talk to City Hall" tonight 2
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...
Inslee on WSU med school bills: No promises, no threats
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.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 2015
WALeg Day 31: Minimum wage votes possible 1
OLYMPIA -- A committee may vote on whether to sent two minimum wage restriction bills to the full Senate this afternoon.
TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 2015
Lawmakers struggle over how to define meals 1
Should potlucks be counted, too?
Senate Higher Ed panel also OKs WSU med school bill
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.
House Higher Ed Committee passes WSU med school bill 1
OLYMPIA -- A bill that would allow WSU to start a medical school in Spokane passed a House committee on a 12-1 vote.
WALeg Day 30: Med school bills in two committees
OLYMPIA -- A version of the WSU medical school bill is scheduled for votes in each chamber's Higher Education Committee.
MONDAY, FEB. 9, 2015
Sheena Henderson's law: Pro warning, not anti gun 3
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.
Wandermere residents plan to oppose apartments 7
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.
WALeg Week 5 on tap: Guns, helmets, 75 mph. And of course, the WSU med school
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.
SUNDAY, FEB. 8, 2015
Sunday Spin 2: Say what?
Heard around the Legislature last week.
SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 2015
Sunday Spin: Early February a time for First World Problems 2
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.
FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 2015
WALeg Day 26: Action on med school bill delayed
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.
Spokane makes the Washington Post 1
The Washington Post mentions Spokane, and it's not even a dig.
WALeg Day 26: Med school bill may come out of House committee
OLYMPIA -- The House Higher Ed Committee has the WSU medical school proposal on its agenda this morning.
THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 2015
WALeg Day 25: Work ahead on wolf and wildfire bills
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.
WALeg Day 25: Of wolves and whales, initiatives and cowboys
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.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 2015
WALeg Day 24: Spirited teen wage debate 1
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.
WALeg Day 24: Hemp, teen wages and energy plans
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
Stratton files ordinance to control cost of city employee meals
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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