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For many Washington families, child care is not only expensive, it’s hard to find.

Concerns are growing among Washington state legislators regarding the health effects of high-THC marijuana.

(The Center Square) – Concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in marijuana are higher than ever before, and that has some lawmakers in Washington state – where recreational weed is legal

A bill introduced in the Washington state legislature aims to limit high-potency cannabis products amid concerns of increasing potency and risks posed to younger people using the products.

Nevada: Law Doubling The Amount Of Weed Possession Takes Effect 

The opening line of Patricia Spears Jones’s elegy for Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet and journalist Claribel Alegría, who died in 2018, envisions a poet who “marked her days with rage & love.” Alegría is thus a model for Spears Jones’s fifth collection, The Beloved Community, which is similarly animated by such “rage and love,” as the poet navigates with grace and grief the “blood, blame, and curses” (“Fred Hampton Born This Day”) of Am...

Unionized workers at the Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) who aimed to oust their boss in a rare effort failed to get enough votes to move forward.

MOSES LAKE — Sila Nanotechnologies officially opened its Moses Lake plant Wednesday with a crowd that included employees, community members, state Reps. Tom Dent and Alex Ybarra and Gov. Jay Inslee. An aide to Sen. Patty Murray read a message from the senator, and Sen. Maria Cantwell congratulated Sila by video. “This moment has been 12 years in the making,” said Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of Sila.

In a world rife with shortages of all kinds, New Orleans writers have constituted a renewable — and continually renewing — resource for nearly all of the city’s 305 years.