One bright spot in Tuesday’s election, the advocate said: Washington voters rejected an initiative that was designed to kill the state’s fledgling cap-and-invest climate program, which provides funding to transit agencies, among other priorities. “It’s ...
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The Washington State Senate approved and sent to Governor Jay Inslee a 100% clean-power bill that forms the cornerstone of the governor's efforts to address climate change and his 2020 presidential election campaign. The Senate, in a 29-20 vote, approved Senate Bill 5116 to require all ...
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo ...
Washington State Governor, and short-lived Presidential candidate, Jay Inslee (D) failed to persuade the Washington legislature to pass his cap-and-trade proposal. Undaunted, he attempted to implement, by fiat, his own carbon cap policy, but was thwarted (for now) by the Washington Supreme Cou...
Inslee, by raising the minimum wage in Washington state, helping to pass a statewide paid family leave law and enacting a moratorium on the death penalty, has been an outspoken progressive executive since he became governor in 2013. But his profile truly rose after the election of President Do...
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said "we are indeed at a decisive moment," Nour News also said that "the Vienna talks have reached a very critical and decisive stage," and urged the United States to make "political decisions," otherwise Washington has to "accept responsib...
(I have frequently written about its political implicationsin the Monthlyover the past 14 years, but there’s a detailed summary here.) The regions do not respect state or even international boundaries, as you can see from the map at the top of this post of what they look like today...
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Secretary of State's Office reported more than 1.2 million registered voters had returned their ballots. That's approximately 25% of the 4.8 million registered voters in the state. This is the first presidential election allowing Washington voters to...
The Washington Postreportedly has lost more than 200,000 digital subscriptions, and three members of its editorial board have stepped down on the heels of its decision not toendorsea candidate in the presidential election between Vice PresidentKamala Harrisand former PresidentDonald Trump. ...