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A somewhat unusual veto request

King County Executive candidates stack cash

Another mild veto

A brief history of the veto pen

Higher wages for some high-hazard workers

A challenge for the House business chair

How an accountability bill for bad actors in the insurance industry died

And now for the losers...

The winners at the 2025 Legislature

How lawmakers went from $3B for education to making the system more regressive

And they’re outta here

Democrats hug it out over rent restriction, UI for strikers

House Democrats narrowly advance big changes to education levies

A lifeline for drug treatment on the ropes

Washington moves toward a new Medicaid money shuffle

House waters down Senate’s big spending proposal for basic education

A fresh tax package emerges

Money and muscle for a fight on new taxes

Senate Democrats raise the roof on rent restriction

Interesting tweaks at the fiscal deadline

The most fun deadline—for us anyway

Ban on flavored vapes & cigarettes returns, with added taxes

Ferguson kinda-sorta threatens to veto a wealth tax

Senate boosts, inflation-proofs gas-tax

Hospitals warn Senate Democrats’ recommended cuts would gut their bottom line

House, Senate Democrats pitch different priorities in operating budget proposals

Unpacking "dueling" tax packages from House and Senate Democrats

New taxes on the wealthy and Big Tech, and a sales tax cut for everyone

Corporate cash flows into anti-tax-increase PAC

A shocking departure from the gov's office

The houses of origin have spoken

House passes renter protections (again)

The state hired the teachers’ union to train special ed teachers

Elections—and retirements—have consequences

Long-fought right to repair passes House

A corporate campaign to elbow a tax on big employers

Senate fiscal committee advances big spending for K-12 priorities

Ferguson's $4 billion budget knife

A high-octane road war with auto insurers

The bills that got their torches snuffed at first cutoff

Unpacking the fight over the Parents' Bill of Rights

Unraveling a shotgun compromise on low-carbon fuels

More of Democrats’ plans to eat the rich

Senate Democrats leave Ferguson’s universal school meals behind

New fronts in the rideshare wars

Local school politics shows the power of supermajority requirement for bonds

Cracking down on the car-tab break for “classic” cars

Fencing off private equity from neighborhood real estate

Insurance commissioner aims to boost penalties for bad actors

Lawmakers pick a knife fight with Tesla

A fight over taxing short-term rentals for affordable housing

House Democrats strip GOP minority of a key clock-management tool

Democrats' gun (and bullet) control shots

High-poverty schools may finally get more cash—if the state is willing to pay

A business-backed “educational” campaign on the budget and taxation

A flurry of special education bills hit Olympia

Ferguson's conservative-sounding inaugural

Introducing the student bill of rights

The curtain goes up in Olympia

Ferguson offers his budget "proposal"

Shewmake named chair of Environment, Energy & Technology

Progress on student isolation & restraint