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Mayor Bruce Harrell talks SCOTUS homelessness case and SPD culture

How would you rate the CARE department at this point?I think they’re awesome. And I think Chief Amy Smith is doing a magnificent job of both recruiting the right people and the...

The multimillion-dollar fight over WA’s cap-and-invest program

Heywood loaned Let’s Go Washington another $157,000 in 2024, according to the PDC. Let’s Go Washington’s top donors in 2024 are Bellevue-based Kemper Holdings, led by prominent businessman Kemper Freeman Jr. ($100,000),...

Facing shortages, WA expands police trainings and fronts the bill

The four-and-a-half-month course includes 720 classroom and training hours. Subjects include patrolling, psychology, field tactics, driving, communication and de-escalation skills, criminal law, serving court orders, searches and seizures, Miranda warnings, crime scene...

Legislature decides WA schools should include LGBTQ+ history

School boards would also be asked to comply with a model policy, and adopt a curriculum that includes the perspectives and experiences of historically marginalized groups, including diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, racial and...

2024 WA Legislature passes bills on guns, environment, education

In a bold move to end child marriage in Washington, Rep. Monica Stonier, D-Vancouver, introduced House Bill 1455, which has now been delivered to Gov. Inslee’s desk for signature. Current Washington law...

WA Legislature revs up plan to electrify 10,000 school buses

Currently, the average price of an electric school bus is $412,907 while the corresponding average price of a gas or diesel bus is $142,154, according to OSPI.“This is to move it forward...

A heap of housing bills failed in WA’s legislative session

House Bill 2270 proposed the creation of a Washington State Department of Housing. Currently, multiple state departments are involved in housing, including the departments of Health, Commerce and Revenue. The creation of a...

How the Israel/Hamas war influenced a WA genocide education bill

Prime Sponsor Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, said that polling, conducted following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, that showed that a fifth of Americans aged 18-29 believe the Holocaust is a...

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