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Washington's new capital gains tax goes before state Supreme Court

The hearing begins at 9 a.m. and can be streamed live or afterward via the government affairs channel TVW.Progressives in Washington have been anticipating this hearing for years in the hope that...

WA Democrats hid messages on Chinese American History Month bill

But in an email, Valdez wrote that he never made any constitutional bid to hide his records.“I did not personally request legislative privilege on the records you reference (or any records anyone...

Some WA lawmakers are sidestepping the state's Public Records Act

The Supreme Court ruling in Associated Press et al. v. Washington State Legislature et al. – which came after a coalition of media organizations sued – essentially found that for years, legislators...

Q&A: Washington Governor Jay Inslee talks housing, guns, climate

With the 2024 elections approaching, eyes in the Democratic Party are fixed on Gov. Jay Inslee and whether he’ll run for a fourth term. A recent Crosscut/Elway Poll found that 34% of...

What WA voters want to see from the 2023 legislative session

The Crosscut/Elway Poll has a 5% margin of error at the 95% confidence level, meaning if the survey were conducted 100 times, the results would be inside five percentage points of the...

Three WA watchdog prison reports remain unreleased to the public

Redacted reportsCrosscut obtained redacted copies of the three remaining unpublished reports – about 58 pages in total – via a request for public records to the Office of Corrections Ombuds. In its...

Inslee's proposed $70B WA state budget focuses on housing

In a news conference Wednesday, Inslee laid out his proposal that he'll send to the Legislature, calling it "a substantial and audacious change in our housing efforts.""Rents have gone up, and people...

Inslee, Ferguson join efforts to ban semiautomatic rifles in WA

The advocacy group is also pushing for lawmakers to allow private citizens to pursue legal action against gun manufacturers, a proposal that also has Ferguson’s and the governor’s support, according to Inslee...

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