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Clark County lawmakers split along party lines on police use-of-force bill Published: April 18, 2021, 6:02am Share: Police at the scene of the fatal shooting of William Abbe on Fourth Plain Boulevard and Stapleton Road on April 28, 2020. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) A bill establishing a state office to investigate police use-of-force incidents passed the Legislature last week and is on track to be signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee before the session concludes. House Bill 1267 will creat...

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: Manufacturing jobs; COVID-19 The Columbian Share: Cheers: To manufacturing. United Precision Corporation, a California-based aerospace manufacturer that counts Boeing, SpaceX and the U.S. military among its clients, is expanding to Clark County. The company has purchased land from the Port of Camas-Washougal, where it will build two manufacturing buildings over the next five to 10 years, according to the Camas-Washougal Post-Record. Construction of re...

Washington State House health bills that passed before the house of origin cutoff Sydney Kurle | Mar 8, 2021 Share this: The past two weeks have been busy ones in the Washington State Legislature. The cutoff for bills to move from their house of origin is on Tuesday, March 9th. Legislators spent the last two weeks in floor sessions from morning until night, and sometimes even on the weekends, working to move bills into the next house. There were 33 health-related bills that managed t...

All Politics is Local About this blogWe go to meetings so you dont have to. Rep. Vicki Kraft, R-Vancouver, reintroduced a bill last week that would establish a $7,000-per-child grant program for families who homeschool or send their children to private school. The fund would be called the K-12 Education Scholarship Program. Her bill has since been referred to the House Education Committee. “We’ve seen how students have been affected this past year from a lack of education choices....

On the opening day of Washington’s 2021 legislative session, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate devoted their time to establishing the rules that will dictate an unprecedented amount of remote work in the coming months.

Pandemic’s ongoing impact leads discussion at Legislative Outlook event in Vancouver Southwest Washington lawmakers talk about challenges COVID-19 will add to session Published: December 12, 2020, 6:00am Share: The state Capitol in Olympia is seen on March 12, the last day of the 2020 legislative session. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte) Washington’s upcoming legislative session is likely to be dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which will shape discussions on topics ranging from health car...