Unlike the fight over Tacoma’s Measure 1, which has drawn big money in recent weeks from real estate and landlord interests, the two Bellingham initiatives are flying under the radar. No proponent...
The debate about renter protections in Tacoma arrives as Washingtonians are feeling the crunch of increasing rents and home prices. The Washington Legislature and Gov. Jay Inslee this year approved new measures...
Not a widespread movementThe push by advocates comes even as attempts to restrict sex education in schools and restrict transgender people have not gained wider traction in Washington. In 2016 and 2017,...
The lawsuit, announced Wednesday, represents a fresh escalation of the dispute over Washington’s mental health system, which has bedeviled state officials and lawmakers for years. Despite two court orders roughly a decade...
The lawsuit, announced Wednesday, represents a fresh escalation of the dispute over Washington’s mental health system, which has bedeviled state officials and lawmakers for years. Despite two court orders roughly a decade...
New practicesBy then, after questions from reporters, legislative leaders had changed their internal practices for redacting records, and multiple lawmakers whose documents had been redacted said they never asserted legislative privilege to...
The purchase of the Cascade Behavioral Health facility, which closed last month, will prevent the loss of more treatment beds amid a long-running shortage of psychiatric treatment options.Funding for the $29.9 million...
Bird, a military veteran who has worked in the federal government and as a business consultant, says the public health measures by Gov. Jay Inslee to curb COVID-19 during the pandemic sent...
