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by Tim Gruver, The Center Square  | April 23, 2021 10:30 AM Print this article Washington state Democrats wanted to ban tear gas and police chokeholds in 2021, but a bill intended to do both may fall short of what they promised voters. In December, Washington Democrats pledged to pass a long list of police reforms that Black Lives Matter activists marched for last summer in Seattle and elsewhere. This session, a public database on the use of force, de-escalation training, and a more comprehensive duty to intervene law make up most of the bills the party wil...

Updated Friday, March 12 at 4:40 p.m. Jill Mangaliman, executive director of Got Green Seattle, photographed at the environmental nonprofit organization’s headquarters in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on March 11, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) Competing efforts to enact landmark climate change legislation have fractured the state’s environmental coalition and Olympia’s all-powerful Democratic caucus, with some activists arguing that the proposal pushed by Gov. Jay Inslee shortchanges minority and low-income communities. Questions of equity and trust have prompted a prominent ...

by Rich Smith • Mar 6, 2021 at 6:08 pm About goddamn time. Lester Black After nine long years of effort and a long debate Saturday afternoon, the Washington state Senate narrowly passed a proposal to tax capital gains on a 25-24 vote. Democrats who joined Republicans in voting against the measure predictably included Sens. Mark Mullet, Steve Hobbs, Annette Cleveland, and Tim Sheldon. The bill will now head back to the House for approval, which it will likely receive given that chamber's support for the tax in the past. Governor Jay Inslee include...

Michael Goldberg   March 2, 2021   Rep. Noel Frame and Rep. Tana Senn answered questions Tuesday on the capital gains tax bills moving through the Legislature. At a briefing hosted by Invest In WA Now, the Democratic legislators were joined by a group of small business owners who support a capital gains tax. The legislators discussed why they think the state’s current economic context calls for a capital gains tax and how an upcoming federal stimulus package plays into their calculus. Never again should we allow ourselves to be in a position where we hit a cri...

State lawmakers this week began what appears to be extended floor debates and votes ahead of the next cut-off deadline for legislative action this session. March 9th is the last day for bills to pass out of their house of origin, except for budget related measures. This year’s 105-day legislative session is scheduled to end on April 25, 2021. Most bills scheduled for action by the full House and Senate during the early part of the session were not controversial and passed with bipartisan majorities. A number of issues, however,  drew extended debate during lengthy floor sessions in both ch...