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WASHINGTON – The health care bill approved Sunday by the House of Representatives lays the groundwork to overhaul a Medicare reimbursement formula that has punished Washington state.
Puyallup officials are looking to revamp their downtown parking system, which could mean expanding free parking or opening spaces now reserved for Sound Transit commuters.
The cost of the special legislative session in Olympia has shrunk to less than $14,000 a day, thanks to a growing line of state legislators who are refusing to accept their $90-per-day expense allowances.
The sales tax remains the sticking point keeping lawmakers in Olympia.
Washington’s current and former House speakers used political muscle and skilled lobbying to push $4 million of state money to a Tacoma housing nonprofit’s building project three years ago, despite concerns raised by two hometown senators, interviews and records show.
Former House Speaker Brian Ebersole made a dozen campaign donations to key state lawmakers involved in approving a $4 million state budget appropriation for the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association between 2006 and 2008.
State economist Arun Raha released his March economic and revenue update last week, and the usually humorous Ph.D. had some good news and he has some bad news.
Here are recent posts from The News Tribune’s Political Buzz blog. For the inside scoop on government and politics, go online to blog.thenewstribune.com/politics.
Several lawmakers are missing the special session. OK, they might not be “missing” it. But they’re not here, for various family- and business-related reasons.
Washington Democratic Rep. Adam Smith says he supports the health care overhaul bill now before Congress.
A small plane carrying two people crashed Friday evening in the front yard of a house in Morton, southwest of Mount Rainier. KING-TV reported that one person was killed and the other critically injured.
A deal shaping up between the Legislature’s weary budget negotiators would keep a prison on McNeil Island – for now – but at a fraction of its current size.
Candidates for Federal Way City Council and mayor will soon become subject to a limit on campaign contributions from individual donors.
Baby bottles and sports bottles sold in Washington state will soon have to be free of the chemical bisphenol A under a measure signed into law on Friday by Gov. Chris Gregoire.
A deal is shaping up to keep McNeil Island Corrections Center open - for now - but at a fraction of its current size. Senate and House budget negotiators said they have tentatively agreed to downsize McNeil to just 256 inmates, from the 1,200 housed there now, and eventually close it.
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