OLYMPIA — The Legislature adjourned today after passing a balanced budget plan that will provide property tax relief while leaving a healthy reserve fund for future emergencies such as wildfires…
Category: Steve Tharinger
New state budget offers help—and hope—to rural hospitals
OLYMPIA — Help is on the way for rural hospitals, especially two sole community hospitals that are the foundation of health care for residents in Clallam County and Grays Harbor…
You’re invited: Van De Wege, Tharinger and Chapman host town halls in Forks and Ocean Shores
OLYMPIA — All three lawmakers from the 24th Legislative District are joining together to host old-fashioned town hall meetings on Thursday, March 22. “This is a great opportunity to inform…
Tharinger: Construction budgets invests in public schools, mental health and environment
OLYMPIA—Changes to the state’s $4.2 billion construction budget will put more funding into building schools, mental health facilities and environmental projects, said Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Dungeness, chair of the House…
Tharinger: Capital budget invests in schools, rural broadband and mental health
OLYMPIA—The chair of the House Capital Budget Committee released changes (House Bill 2395) to the two-year construction budget that would invest more in public school construction, access to broadband internet…
Tharinger and Chapman applaud passage of $4 billion construction budget
OLYMPIA—The construction budget passed by the House and Senate will build a record $ 1 billion in new public schools and includes more than $46 million in local projects in…
Work session forces postponement of Forks town hall meeting
OLYMPIA — A town hall meeting scheduled for Forks on Dec. 12 will be rescheduled due to a critical meeting on water rights. The meeting, hosted by Sen. Kevin Van…
One Washington: Lawmakers come to Grays Harbor on first stop of rural development tour
ABERDEEN—More than a dozen state representatives, including Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, came to the Rotary Log Pavilion for the first stop on a listening tour in timber and…
Governor signs Tharinger bill to help rural hospitals
OLYMPIA—Hospitals in remote parts of Washington state will get help from a new law written by Rep. Steve Tharinger (D-Sequim). “In rural Washington, hospitals are the foundation that health care…
New school being built with cross-laminated timber
Here’s some recent press coverage about the local school now under construction using cross-laminated timber. This new technology has great potential for creating jobs in timber country while reducing the risk…