Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed a supplemental transportation budget with strong bipartisan support. It was a no new taxes budget that continued funding for a number of…
What is a “Road User Charge?”
Sen. Cantwell: Ocean Acidification Kills Jobs
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell spoke on the Senate floor about the threat ocean acidification poses to Washington state’s jobs and economy. Below is an excerpt from her speech. You can…
Lights out? Just the mercury ones
The switch is on. It’s been a long, winding, and often dark and stormy road to building an effective recycling program for old mercury light bulbs, but one enlightened Washington…
Rep. Fitzgibbon proposal helps fund basic education with price on carbon pollution
Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon (D-Burien) today introduced HB 2803, setting a price on emissions of climate change causing carbon pollution and using the proceeds to meet the legislature’s obligation to fund…
Tuesday, March 11
PRINT Associated Press Health law cited as US uninsured rate drops Public transit ridership rises in Seattle, falls in Everett Program finds success sending low-income kids to college, report…