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(The Center Square) – It was standing room only Tuesday in Olympia for a legislative public hearing on Initiative 2111 to ban the state and local jurisdictions from taxing personal

Testifying before lawmakers, Mina Hashemi recounted how three years ago she was shocked to see that the condom she had explicitly asked for during sex had been removed.  “I felt …

OLYMPIA – Testifying before lawmakers, Mina Hashemi recounted how three years ago she was shocked to see that the condom she had explicitly asked for during sex had been removed.

Testifying before lawmakers, Mina Hashemi recounted how three years ago she was shocked to see that the condom she had explicitly asked for during sex had been removed.  “I felt …

Some fear Artificial Intelligence (AI) might open a dark chapter to a dystopian future. Others say the progress it promises is virtually unlimited. To find a balance among those concerns, …

A group tasked by the Legislature with reforming the Metropolitan Council will wrap up its work Thursday — but has not settled on a single proposal for restructuring the regional planning board. The Met Council — a powerful body with a wide range of responsibilities and a $1.4 billion budget — has long been criticized for lacking transparency and accountability, in part due to its members ...

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Members have started presenting plans for how to do regional governance differently ahead of a Feb. 1 deadline to send recommendations to the Legislature.

A special task force created by the legislature is narrowing down the options for putting others in charge of the Metropolitan Council.

The Metropolitan Governance Task Force has until Feb. 1 to send a proposal to the Legislature about how — or whether — to change how the Met Council is run.