We’re choosing our next governor, a new Supreme Court justice and most of the Legislature, and making some big tax decisions that will affect the state budget as well as the environment...
The optionsVoters with needs for ballot accessibility have a couple of options. King County provides an online ballot-marking option for voters with vision impairments to cast their ballot privately, according to the...
Rising costsLast week, Brandon Borg, 21, was topping off his tank at a 76 gas station in Everett. Gas was $3.99 a gallon — cheaper than it was earlier this summer, but...
“I was having doubts about the Republican Party prior to that,” he said, “but didn’t really want to admit it. And that kind of also ties into, you know, evangelicalism. I was...
The 7% tax is levied on earnings in excess of $262,000 from the sales of stocks, bonds and other investments. The sales of homes and farms are exempt. Roughly 0.2% of Washington’s...
Most legislators currently earn $61,997 annually. They’d receive a 7% increase on July 1, 2025, bringing their pay to $66,411, with another 7% a year later, upping their salaries to $71,126.Statewide executives...
The cap-and-invest program auctions permits to polluting industries to allow them to emit carbon emissions. The program has raised $2 billion for environmental projects over the past 22 months, which has been...
Washington in 2021 passed the Climate Commitment Act, which put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions. Fuel refineries are the biggest producers of such emissions.The goal of the act is to achieve...
