Initiative 2066, which would prohibit laws that discourage natural gas use or promote electrification, and which would instead require utilities to provide natural gas to customers, was the only initiative that got...
The delegates approved a resolution emphasizing that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and asserting that “every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of...
It’s a gap in the state’s abortion infrastructure that preceded Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and persists today, at a time when states like Washington and Oregon are accommodating even more abortion...
By Monday evening, Upthegrove had 395,812 votes and Kuehl Pederson had 395,619, a difference of 193 votes – about 0.02% of their total votes. There were an estimated 1,350 votes left to...
The Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a regulatory and consumer advocacy agency. It provides volunteer advocates to help people navigate Medicare; licenses insurance companies and the individual businesses (there are 200,000)...
The cap-and-invest system aims to decrease carbon emissions and finance climate change mitigation measures across the state. Under the program, carbon-emitting corporations – like oil and gas companies and utilities – bid...
But typically, fees in Washington pale compared to those in neighboring states. One analysis of tens of thousands of records requests made through MuckRock, a records assistance website, found that their Idaho requesters...
“I made the determination that I could assist the people of Franklin County in the state Legislature as effectively (if not more so) as I could on the Franklin County Board of...