Dear friends and neighbors, Hello from Olympia, where we’re wrapping up the second week of this year’s legislative session! Last week I was formally re-elected by my peers as Speaker…
Legislative Update: Wrapping Up Week Two
Category: Email Updates
Legislative Update: Session Starts Next Week, Legislative Preview Forum, How to Get Involved
Dear friends and neighbors, The 2025 legislative session starts next week! Washington has a part-time legislature (as do many states), so we’re only down in Olympia for a few months…
Legislative Update: Happy Holidays, Food and Housing Assistance
Dear friends and neighbors, It’s the holiday season once again, and a time when people often gather with loved ones, friends, and community to celebrate. It can also be an…
Returning to your Inbox: Legislative Updates, The Page Program, and Open Enrollment for Health Plans
Dear friends and neighbors, The election results were certified yesterday, and with that I can resume our regular official legislative updates! You might remember from earlier this year (or, for…
Goodbye . . . for now
Dear friends and neighbors, I’m reaching out with a final update about our work this session. Folks who have received these emails from me for a while will remember that…
2024 Session Victories: Funding for Local Projects
Dear friends and neighbors, We talk a lot about the different budgets in our newsletters, but we wanted to update you all on what those investments will mean in our…
2024 Session Victories: Let’s talk housing
Dear friends and neighbors, I’m back with another update on our work this session, this time with a focus on housing. First, though, I wanted to pass along a quick…
2024 Session Victories: Community Safety, Behavioral Health, and Responding to the Opioid/Fentanyl Crisis
Dear friends and neighbors, In my final e-newsletter of 2024 session, I mentioned that I’d be doing a deeper dive in subsequent newsletters into some of the great work we…
Legislative Update: Sine Die – The Last Day of Session
Dear friends and neighbors, Today is Sine Die (pronounced sigh-knee die), the last day of the 2024 Legislative Session! It’s called that because when we adjourned for the last time tonight,…
Legislative Update: Budget Rollouts and Town Hall Thank-Yous
Dear friends and neighbors, I wanted to kick things off this week by thanking the people who attended our town hall last weekend. We had some good conversations about housing,…