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…
Advice from 4th Graders – Week 7
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…
Appleton’s Silver Alert bill approved by House
OLYMPIA – “This bill will save lives.” That’s how a colleague of Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-23rd district, Poulsbo) summed up House Bill 1021, one of Appleton’s priority bills for the 2015…