PRINT Associated Press State officials ask lawmakers for $9M in case of drought Justice Dept.’s Ferguson report resonates across U.S. House votes to strike local bans on church homeless…
Advice from 4th Graders – Week 7

I am really enjoying these posts from Linda Myrick’s 4th graders at Somerset Elementary in Bellevue. This particular piece needs broad circulation, and I will be sending it to all…
36th Legislative District town hall to be held March 14

OLYMPIA – The three state legislators from the 36th District, Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Reps. Reuven Carlyle and Gael Tarleton, will host a town hall meeting from 10 a.m. to…
Fiscal Cutoff
State legislatures typically meet for a relatively short period of time each year and consequently are very deadline driven. Congress works on things until they are ready to be brought…
Week 8 Update: Passing the state Voting Rights Act, strengthening families and the middle class

Washington Voting Rights Act clears the House 50 years after Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery, and 50 years after passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, there…