Washington state has a growing population and growing economy – but it’s been hard to fund schools, roads and other basic services.These three charts help explain why. First, unlike our…
An economic story in three charts
Thursday, June 12
PRINT Aberdeen Daily World Railroad blames former owner for derailments, pledges investment Associated Press New laws, including Dream Act, start Thursday Seattle’s minimum wage challenged State, feds extend talks on…
Today: committees discuss spiral of unpaid legal fees
Debtors’ prisons were supposed to be outlawed in the United States over 200 years ago. And, in a 1983 Supreme Court Case, Bearden v Georgia, the court ruled that judges…
Local marijuana ban challenged in court
Since the passage of Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana use in Washington state, several cities and counties have passed their own ordinances banning the growth and sale of the…
Orwall on meeting her birth family: “I’d never been in a room where I Iooked like anyone else.”
Rep. Tina Orwall, an adoptee herself, knows what it’s like to miss important pieces of one’s own life puzzle. Not knowing if you’re at risk of hypertension or diabetes could…