Travel guru Rick Steves will speak in Tacoma Wednesday night in support of Initiative 502, the ballot measure that asks Washington voters to legalize marijuana.
Travel guru Rick Steves will speak in Tacoma Wednesday night in support of Initiative 502, the ballot measure that asks Washington voters to legalize marijuana.
The event — set for 7 p.m. at the Pantages Theater — is part of a 10-city tour Steves is on to promote the initiative.
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In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug “Just Say No” campaign, a man calling himself “Jerry” appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws.
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PULLMAN — Rahmel Dockery carried his dream of an NFL career from Curtis High School to Washington State last year.
Imprisoned felon Robert Hill is slated to write the official statement opposing the Tacoma School District’s $500 million bond measure.
Franklin County farmer Steve Cooper said recently approved federal protections for a Franklin County plant could adversely affect the county's tax base if farming is limited where the protected plants grow.
"It's going to cause ramifications across the county," said Cooper, vice president for policy development for the state Farm Bureau, Wednesday after a Franklin County commissioners public hearing. "It's hard to get folks involved who live a long way from the river, but it's going to impact them."
After hearing from dozens of farmers during the meeting attended by about 60 people, commissioners agreed to send federal officials a letter asking them to give the public more time to make its case about listing the yellow-flowering White Bluffs bladderpod as an endangered species.
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