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NCWLIFE 12th District State Reps. Keith Goehner, left, and Mike Steele. North Central Washington state lawmakers will hold virtual town halls this month to update constituents on the ongoing session of the state Legislature. On March 23, Reps. Keith Goehner and Mike Steele of the 12 th District will hold an hour-long town hall beginning at 6 p.m. The next night, March 24, at 7 p.m., 13 th District lawmakers will hold their virtual town hall, with state Sen. Judy Warnick and Reps. Tom Dent and Alex Ybarra. Constituents who want to participate must pre-register for the Zoom meetings. Go her...

by Rich Smith • Mar 11, 2021 at 10:53 am The "just cause" bill is one of a few major pieces of legislation aimed at preventing a wave of evictions that could exacerbate the state's homelessness crisis. ROB DOBI Over the next few weeks lawmakers in Olympia will consider a few major pieces of legislation designed to strengthen tenant protections and help stem the tide of a potential wave of evictions set to begin at the end of the month, when the Governor's moratorium is scheduled to lift. Next week the House will hear a big ol' Senate bill, sponsored...

It's not just businesses and citizens who've noticed, nor just local county and health officials. Now legislators are demanding Gov. Inslee re-examine and change his Healthy Washington Re-Open plan. A group of GOP Senators and Legislators from virtually every legislative District in Eastern and Central WA have sent a letter to the Governor, demanding changes. Healthy Washington-A Roadmap to Recovery is the fancy title for a rehashed version of his failed Safe Start Plan; except this time the state is lumped into 8 regions. And that's what has legislators furious. Rep. Tom Dent, (R) who serves...

Washington hosts first climate assembly in the United States Residents from all over the state begin virtual meetings to decide which climate change solutions to recommend to the Legislature in Olympia. by Members of the Liberty Bell Junior-Senior High School track team do laps during practice on April 18, 2019. During wildfires, the smoke got so bad that the athletes couldn't use the school's track, so they relied on a community gym to let them use their stationary exercise bikes. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) On the evening of Jan. 12, at the inaugural meeting of the Washington Climate ...

With Matt Shea out, yearly push for Eastern Washington secession gets new co-sponsors The proposed independent state of "Liberty." (KIRO 7) For years now, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea and Rep. Bob McCaslin have made a habit of beginning the legislative session by proposing a bill that would have Eastern Washington secede from its western half. With Shea now expelled from the Republican caucus in the state Legislature, McCaslin is continuing the largely ceremonial process of proposing the bill with new co-sponsors. Rep. Shea faced allegations of domestic terrorism in 2019, not long after he...