Dwindling Republican power in WashingtonFor both major political parties, the stakes are real. Democrats struggled for years to pass a capital-gains tax and carbon-reduction program through the state Legislature, even after they...

The governor’s spending proposal – his last after three terms as governor – comes just before lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled Washington Legislature return in early January for a two-month legislative session that...

Secrecy sparkDOR is a key state agency that administers roughly 60 categories of taxes and does other work on fiscal policies, such as tax analysis and helping to author proposed laws. On...

In the resulting Civic Health Summit held in Renton in October, Heck, a Democrat, described the rating system: “One is almost at civil war” and 10 is “We just join hands and...

The investigation follows a series of bitter internal disputes after the commission appointed longtime employee Amanda Maxwell as executive director in 2021, according to public records obtained by Crosscut.The issues came to...

Asked to describe their feelings about the coming presidential election they didn’t hold back: scared, frightened, discouraged, uneasy, pessimistic, unenthusiastic. Some predicted a shit-show. A year from the 2024 general election, Washington voters...

In Thursday afternoon’s vote dump, Tacoma’s Measure 1 was passing 50.6% to 49.4%. In a statement before the vote dump, Ty Moore, campaign manager of Tacoma For All, the group that campaigned for...

While the video plays, Troy Ironmonger, the pre-apprenticeship program manager, stands out in the hallway and describes Zorn as “not afraid to sit right up front and be engaged.”“Smart as a whip,...