We are just starting our 7th week of the 15-week legislative session here in Olympia. We passed the House and Senate cutoff deadline on Friday when bills had to move…
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Legislative Update – Day of Remembrance
We Remember This week the Legislature took some time to remember a dark chapter in our nation’s history. On February 19th, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066,…
Ask Brian: combining distillers licenses / manganese in Brewster water
Rep. Brian Blake (D-Aberdeen) responds to constituents’ emails and calls, he talks about his bill HB 2099, which would combine distillers licensees and craft distillers into one license. He also…
Joint statement from the members of the LGBT caucus on today’s Ingersoll v. Arlene’s Flowers decision
The members of the Washington State Legislature’s LGBT caucus jointly released the following statement on the state Supreme Court’s decision in Ingersoll v. Arlene’s Flowers: “This morning, our state’s highest…
Protecting ALL Washingtonians
February 19th marks the 75th anniversary of when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This action sent 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry to internment camps within the…