The following is a guest editorial by Rep. Andy Billig that was published in the Spokesman Review on 2/19/2011 For someone who has spent the past 18 years running the…
Tax breaks need scrutiny
Seattle Times endorses Dickerson proposal to legalize and regulate cannabis
OLYMPIA—The Seattle Times, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Washington and the Pacific Northwest, has endorsed Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson’s proposal to legalize and regulate the production, distribution and…
Rep. Sells’ e-memo – Feb 18, 2011
February 18, 2011 Message from Rep. Sells Thursday, February 17, was the last day a bill that originated in the House of Representatives could be passed out of a House…
“We must remember our past.”
Today, lawmakers in the House recognized the Japanese-American internees and World War II veterans from Washington state for their sacrifice and patriotic loyalty during their relocation and internment sixty-nine years…
Supplemental Budget Action
Today the House and Senate passed a bipartisan supplemental budget bill that sets us up to finish the 2010 fiscal year (ending in June 2011) in the black. In December…