Washington’s Environmental Priorities Coalition (EPC), that represents more than 20 statewide organizations, noted some environmental progress in 2020. Two of four 2020 EPC Priorities passed...Read More

House Speaker Laurie Jinkins and Minority Leader J.T. Wilcox sat down for separate interviews today with Mike McClanahan of TVW to discuss their main takeaways...Read More

Lawmakers in the House and Senate today unveiled a $1 billion, 2020 supplemental operating budget. At the center of the budget is a $160 million...Read More

A bill aimed at protecting Washington’s elections from cyber attacks by enhancing coordination with local elections officials passed in the Senate this week with bipartisan...Read More

Rep. Norma Smith asked for a point of personal privilege on the House floor today to announce that she will not run for re-election in November....Read More

A bill aimed at increasing voter turnout passed in the Legislature this week. Rep. Melanie Morgan’s bill requires ballot return envelopes to prominently display the...Read More

Today is day 51 of the 60-day legislative session, where the budget process is taking up much of the oxygen. For a run down of...Read More

Today in the Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee, Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber testified on behalf of her bill to reduce the cost of insulin....Read More

We should start calling this the Midday Wire…  With news breaking every Tuesday morning that is directly relevant to the briefing we send you, it takes...Read More

The deadline for reading in committee reports (passing bills out of committee and reading them into the record on the floor) from the opposite house,...Read More