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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 to make it from the House to the Senate in the past weeks. Here are the 13 we are watching.     The...

State House passes bill to exempt certain election security information from public records disclosure By Laurel Demkovich, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane Published: February 25, 2021, 1:53pm Share: OLYMPIA — A bill that would exempt certain election security information from public records disclosures passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday. After an election that brought up questions of security, the bill aims to keep certain election procedures and plans of continuity unavailable to the public. Sponsor Rep. Laurie Dolan, D-Olympia, called it “an election in...

Some readers wrote in recently, following a story in which Digress Wine bar and its owner, Rob Chase, were featured. It included the following: “We live in College Park and visit Digress way too often. Rob and Digress are jewels here in [College Park] ... ” I certainly couldn’t disagree with the latter. And found myself a little envious of the former. I reflected on my last visit — wherein I ...

M organ Sanders, a former facility engineer, first realized something was wrong when he started falling off ladders and getting dizzy driving. Then, nearly a decade ago, came the devastating diagnosis: He had a brain tumor. During the depths of the recession, he struggled to pay his bills, including his mortgage and his Spokane County property taxes. "I worked extremely hard to keep up with my taxes," Sanders says. "[But] I was a year behind. After you miss the first due date, it escalated something fierce." Go a year without paying your property taxes in Washington sta...

Here We Go Again: Will 2021 Be the Year Liberty Becomes State 51? Another Washington legislative session, another bill introduced to break the state down the Cascades to form Liberty, a 51st state made up of eastern Washington, only. Washington state Representatives Bob McCaslin and Rob Chase, from the Spokane area, District 4, Positions 1 and 2 respectively, are proposing House Bill 1239 that would establish the state of "Liberty." This idea has been bandied about back and forth since 2019, but never has it been given serious consideration. House Bill 1239 would create Liberty with the borde...