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Introducing the Observer’s newest team member
Cap gains tax likely headed for the ballot alongside cap-and-trade
Banning corporate political money could grow legs
Some housing policy news from Re-Wire
Hardball and hard cash at the fundraising deadline
Ferguson serves up fishy justice
Bankruptcy brinksmanship at Strategies 360
The repeating themes of anti-tax initiatives
We've been giving thanks for our readers
A ballot fight over cap-and-trade
Reichert passes Mullet in campaign cash race
It's time to register for Re-Wire
Election Roundup: How all that money played
Senate Housing sizes up apartment tax breaks
What democracy vouchers paid for in Seattle politics
More mixed news on Washington’s wildfire front
Late money pours into Seattle races
Realtors go big against Tacoma eviction ban
Two local bids for tenant rights
Spending in the governor's race: Polls aplenty
Realtors go big in Seattle, Spokane
Builder money flows into Seattle Council PACs
Playing nice in the democracy-voucher sandbox
Lawmakers mull how to rein in the bots
Big money from the left in Spokane jail fight
A big push from the right in the Spokane mayor’s race
A conservative initiative slate hits the streets
A crowd in the Lands Commissioner race
Supremes hand districts a loss on school construction
Big checks for a pro-Mullet PAC
Ferguson backs down on surplus money issue
An example of the power of being AG
The Realtors’ big bet on the ‘Year of Housing’
Reichert raises $238K; Franz rebounds
Ferguson fundraising proceeds apace; Mullet’s declines
What Washington gets for its tourism dollars
Liquor and Cannabis Board weighs the real cost of free wine
Brown rakes in cash for AG race
A pre-primary campaign cash roundup
Ethics panel dings Dhingra over abortion-rights event
State agencies eye a new normal for office life
A look at who bears the burden of toll lanes
Democrats pitch would-be fixes to curb soaring gas prices
A look at who drives in Washington
Lawmakers mull rulebook for a staff union
The fat-cat money is back in Seattle City Council races
Mullet, Ferguson raked in cash in June
These local governments beat the state to legalizing middle housing
How the railroad worker bill got derailed
The draft-Reichert movement picks up heft
A tough primary fight for Lands Commissioner
U.S. Attorney resigns, likely to shake up AG race
How a bid to axe the ‘pink tax’ got shelved
A look at Franz's money in in the governor's race
Cap gains tax repeal campaign stirs
New polling in the governor's race
Walsh makes a bid for GOP party chair
A clarification on this morning's Observer
A look at Inslee’s lobbying game
Local governments and an inconvenient truce on housing
The governor’s race gets interesting again
A who’s-who of donors for behavioral health
How a tax break for hydrogen blew up
Is it lights out for the Sunshine Committee?
Two interesting polls in governor’s race
A wood-pellet plant from Big British bioenergy
A first-term lawmaker's big year
Kraken taxes, hog fuel, deep fakes, and magic mushrooms
Franz, Big Timber and the “furniture theory”
Kuderer jumps into insurance commissioner’s race
Scenarios in the governor's race
How transit-oriented development derailed
Franz tries to limit Ferguson’s fundraising
Inslee signs weapons ban, gun-rights groups head to court
Dicey compromise on Blake sets up last-day drama
Ways & Means chair eyes the exit
Lawmakers pass PTSD protections for nurses
It's House v. Senate as the endgame heats up
A smaller real estate tax hike on the move
A business-labor battle divides Democrats
Gun control gets another green light
PSE's gas plan's fate looks dicey
DNR looks to cash in on carbon credits
Sticky compromises on transit-oriented development.
Casualties and survivors at the second cutoff
Realtors hit the airwaves to oppose tax hike
Special Edition: Supremes save cap gains tax
Supremes poised to rule on cap gains tax
The governor's race gets boring in a hurry
An early poll on the 2024 governor's race
Big Biofuel raises red flags with Washington tribe
An interesting Inslee jaunt for Sunshine Week
Cutoff casualties: Rent restrictions, recycling, tougher DUI standard die
A truce in nurses v. hospitals
Drug-possession debate splits Democrats
An enduring business-labor fight renews
Abortion rights, orcas, ADUs and tow-trucks
It's fiscal cutoff day; stuff's likely to die
Higher real estate taxes for affordable housing
A tax break for greener jet fuel
Puget Sound Energy pushes to curtail its own gas business
Lawmakers clash with unions over licensing reform
Negotiated version of recycling bills clear committees
A perennial fight over booze taxation
Expanding the working families tax credit
Landlords push back against rent restrictions
The Supremes finally take up the capital gains tax
GOP chair re-elected after bad year for Republicans
An expanded wealth tax proposal
Recycling and gun control take the stage
A statewide universal basic income pilot
A bid to end the exploitation of inmate labor
Inslee's old-news State of the State