JERRY CORNFIELD
With revenues rising, budget writers are going to get lots of requests on how to spend it
WA Legislature 2020
There’s a wide range of subjects they hope to address when the 2020 session begins next month.
A 2017 law lets lawmakers offer negotiation topics. But a bipartisan panel didn’t do so this week.
They want Jay Inslee to halt his planned $175 million reallocation of state transportation dollars.
Results of a private investigation could put the fate of GOP lawmaker in front of the House in 2020.
Teachers ratified a new contract Monday and the Board of Education will consider it next month.
THE PETRI DISH
Inslee, possible candidates eye 2020 race
News Analysis
Washington also is considering becoming more significant by moving its primary to early March.
News Analysis
The competitive nature of the initiative and referendum season now peaking in Washington.
Snohomish County gets $166,000, but if turnout is high this year, it might cost more.
News Analysis
What we do know is that he’s off to Iowa in June to deliver the keynote address at a party fundraiser.
News Analysis
The conservative activist’s self-financing claim points to a lack of deep-pocketed donors.
Olympia
Kim Wyman is asking Gov. Jay Inslee for the authority to reimburse counties for postal costs.
Analysis
It was not always a civil process, but two diametrically opposed groups managed to find common ground.
It will be illegal in Washington to sell or own devices that make semiautomatic guns fire more rapidly.
The Senate and House disagree over whether lost revenue from a lower fee should be offset right away.
It should result in reduction of the cost of vehicle licenses. The bill now goes to the state House.
Meantime, news organizations, including this one, have agreed to pause a lawsuit over access.
Analysis
What did they do, and what matters to you?
Q&A
Democrat Frank Chopp has had the speaker title since 1999, and he says he’s not retiring this year.
