Washington state lawmakers hope to pass a new transportation tax package to pay for all these things. But this year, lawmakers want to try to improve the environment while paying for the...
'The tip of the iceberg’Lisa Daugaard, executive director of the Public Defender Association, said she doesn’t think the worst actors in police departments actually show up on prosecutors’ Brady lists. Rather, she...
‘Red flags’One problem with officers being reinstated through arbitration is that it can make it harder for other police agencies to know of a cop’s past issues. Case in point: Soap Lake...
Prosecutors are required to keep track of cops with credibility issues so that, if those officers are asked to testify in court, the defendant's lawyers will be informed about the officers’ past...
The Senate budget proposal would spend about $59 billion in state money over the next two years, on top of allocating about $7 billion in unused federal aid money.The largest portions of...
The failure of those efforts, along with another bill that would have created community oversight boards for police, has led some community advocates to question how committed legislators are to holding officers...
If enacted, the legislation will set a carbon pollution standard against which transportation fuels would be judged. Fuels that don’t meet the standard would generate debts to the producers, while fuels that...
“We are a little sad,” said Dudash, the vice president of patient services of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands. Like many other businesses and nonprofits, Planned Parenthood has...
