It’s where funding for public schools and universities, highways and public transit, prisons and local law enforcement is determined. Laws governing housing density, environmental protections, firearm access, gambling and mental health care all begin there.
It deserves your attention, and as the new state politics reporter at Cascade PBS, I want to help you make sense of it all.
Jumping into the world of statewide politicking can be overwhelming, to say the least. Luckily, this isn’t my first gig covering Washington’s Legislature, its nine statewide elected officials, its cabinet agencies and judicial system.
I moved to Olympia from my home state of Indiana in the spring of 2020 (a totally
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