OLYMPIA – Cities and counties that try to keep state-licensed marijuana stores from opening without adopting specific ordinances could pay a price by losing most of their tax revenue from alcohol.
OLYMPIA – Facebooking while driving would be just as illegal as texting while driving under a pair of bills announced Tuesday in the Washington Legislature.
Legislators have hearings from early morning through late afternoon on everything from dangerous dog breeds to marijuana moratoria to whether or not state universities should call their branch campuses "branch campuses.
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