Dear Friends: Greetings from Olympia! A lot has happened since I last wrote. We went through committee cutoffs and House of Origin cutoff. Bills that failed to be passed out…
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The Seattle Times: Oil-train safety emerges as hot environmental issue in Olympia
Brian Rosenthal – Staff Writer The fight over coal trains, billed as the Pacific Northwest’s biggest environment debate in decades, is so 2013. The new hot topic is oil transportation….
ASK MARY HELEN 3 : Background checks for gun sales
Watch Rep. Mary Helen Roberts respond to a constituent email on Initiative 594: background checks for firearm sales and transfers.
Prioritizing mental health
We are devoting this week’s newsletter to one of Eileen’s priority bills for the 2014 session. House Bill 2725 will make it easier for individuals with severe mental illness to…
Paying it forward – a new way to fund higher education?
Most Americans see college education as the key to financial success, independence, and economic mobility. But, as the Great Recession deepened, legislatures around the country dipped into their higher education…