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What Drives A State Senator Crazy? Call A Cop And See We don't get to spend a lot of time with 14th District State Senator Curtis King so when he is available we like to hit him up with as many topics as he has time to discuss. He had two frustrating, disappointing head-scratchers to talk about this morning. The Odds As of this March, Democrats control both houses of the Washington State Legislature with a 16 vote majority in the House ( 57-41) and a 7 vote majority in the Senate (28-21...with one Democratic senator -Tim Sheldon of Potlatch - caucusing with the 20 Republicans).
Washington creates permanent rental assistance program By Brandon Block, The Olympian Published: May 3, 2021, 8:04am Share: OLYMPIA— The idea of rental assistance — the government stepping in to pay people’s rent to prevent them from losing their home — is not new, but it has taken on a new prominence and urgency in the pandemic, as billions of federal dollars have helped pull tenants out from under mounting debt. Now, Washington state is making that policy permanent. Legislators passed a bill on the penultimate day of the session that creates a dedicated funding sourc...
Washington state creates permanent rental assistance program The Olympian 4/29/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Apr. 29—The idea of rental assistance — the government stepping in to pay people's rent to prevent them from losing their home — is not new, but it has taken on a new prominence and urgency in the pandemic, as billions of federal dollars have helped pull tenants out from under mounting debt. Now, Washington state is making that policy permanent. Legislators passed a bill on the penultimate day of the session that creates a dedicated funding s...
by Rich Smith • Apr 26, 2021 at 10:00 am For a couple months all drugs were decriminalized in Washington. But after the Governor signs this bill? Not so much. Rather than embrace a recent state Supreme Court decision and fully adopt a public health approach to drug addiction statewide, during the final days of the 2021 session lawmakers in Olympia decided to pass a bill that re-criminalizes simple drug possession as a misdemeanor for the next two years. People convicted of misdemeanors face up to 90 days in jail. The proposal does, however, give off...