Preventing mass shootings will take money for school behavioral health support, lawmaker says
A state lawmaker from Olympia on Monday called on the Legislature in 2020 to revise the state budget to provide more funding for school safety and mental health support for students. Democratic state Rep. Laurie Dolan was the lead sponsor this year of a bill, which Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law, to evaluate potential or actual threatening behavior of students to find “facts or evidence that the threat is likely to be carried out.” Read more in the Olympian
EDITORIAL: Thunberg, other youths, prosecute our inaction
Earnestness, especially when expressed by a teenager, is easy to dismiss, to mock, even. In expressing her fear and horror that the world is not acting with enough urgency to confront the coming ecological disaster of climate change, Greta Thunberg is earnest and emotional. She’s also right. Read more in the Everett Herald
Should Washington ban e-cigarette flavors? State leaders puzzling over response to lung illnesses linked to vaping
New product-disclosure requirements for e-cigarettes. Banning chemicals used in vaping flavors. More oversight by state regulators — and possibly even lawsuits. Washington state officials and lawmakers are debating a range of responses to the mysterious vaping-related lung illness that has sickened hundreds across the country and is now sickening Washingtonians. Read more in the Seattle Times
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