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Washington lawmakers get good news on state revenues RACHEL LA CORTE, Associated Press March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The capitol building in Olympia, Washington. @ Didier Marti/Getty Images OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington's economy continues to improve, with the latest state revenue forecast showing that lawmakers will have more than $3 billion more to work with as they prepare to unveil budget plans next week, plus money the state will receive from the latest federal stimulus package. Updated numbers by the the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council released Wednesday show that proj...

Credit Doug Nadvornick/SPR Spokane Democratic legislators have announced two of the five people who will oversee redistricting in Spokane County. Senator Andy Billig, Representatives Timm Ormsby and Marcus Riccelli, all of which represent the city of Spokane, have chosen two attorneys to join the redistricting committee. Spokane’s Democratic delegation chose Natasha Hill and Brian McClatchey. McClatchey is the Director of Policy and Government Relations for the City of Spokane City Council and has previously served as the in-house attorney for the Coeur d’Alene casino and was the vice-pre...

Washington Democrats decry Inslee's 'disastrous' reopening plan, push for emergency aid by Tim Gruver, The Center Square  | February 02, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article A host of Washington state lawmakers are racing ahead of Gov. Jay Inslee to assist pandemic-ravaged small businesses as his reopening plan takes heat from fellow Democrats. When Inslee issued Washington's first statewide "stay-at-home" order on March 23, the state's weekly case average was 154. On Monday, it was 1,671, the state Department of Health Between then and now, his phased reopeni...

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...

Gov. Inslee proposes capital gains tax, tax on health insurers to offset pandemic revenue losses By Rachel La Corte and Q13 News Staff Published  OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing a new capital gains tax and a tax on health insurers as part of his two-year, $57.6 billion budget proposal that seeks to offset the revenue losses the state has seen during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and to help bolster the state’s public health system. Last month’s state revenue forecast showed that while the state has made some gains since the first round of business closures ear...