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With legislative Democrats looking out, first and foremost, for Sound Transit, Rep. Paul Graves reminded the House it should always think of the taxpayers first before asking voters for even more money. 

Edgar missed entering the Baseball Hall of Fame by a hair Next year is his year!

The federal government re-opened yesterday after a two-day shutdown.

Finally passing a Hirst fix doesn’t mean session is over. Today alone, there is a deluge of bills receiving committee hearings.

A victory was won for rural Washington yesterday when the Legislature finally approved a solution to the Hirst decision late last night.

Gov. Inslee “wasn’t aware” his Dept. of Licensing routinely shared data with federal immigration enforcement – just add it to the burgeoning “Inslee Didn’t Know” category.

John Spellman, the first King County Executive and last Republican governor, died yesterday at 91. Spellman served one term, of which he was sanguine: “You don’t get elected to get re-elected. You get elected to do the job.”  

“It has angered me.” – Jay Inslee on the DOL not following his executive order on immigration from last year

We can only assume A.G. Bob Ferguson will be suing himself soon now that it’s public knowledge that DOL is handing over personal information to ICE.   If everyone reading this right now donated just $1 we would have all the funds we need for the rest of the month. If you can chip in … Continued

The first thing Democrats did with their new state Senate majority? Repealed the 2/3 rule for tax increases – you know what’s on their minds.