An initiative to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in Washington probably won’t get fast-tracked by the Legislature before it sees the ballot this fall, the campaign supporting it says.
The owner of a court reporting business announced this week that he will run for a 30th District House seat as a Democrat.
To understand the ‘no’ vote cast on gay marriage Wednesday by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, it helps to look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the “everything but marriage” referendum.
Service Employees International Union 775 Healthcare is headed back to court in a dispute with the state over its reduction in home-care aid for certain Medicaid clients who are disabled or elderly.
Residents testified Wednesday night that increasing the cost to cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge would take a toll on families living on the peninsula and its economy.
Washington is one step closer to legalizing gay marriage, and also to a citizen referendum against it, after the state House approved a same-sex marriage proposal Wednesday.
Local lawmakers voted along party lines today except for three Democrats, the only three in the Democratic majority to oppose the bill.
If true, the charges are ugly: a police officer cashing in on the deaths of four colleagues and feathering his nest with shiny toys. Skeeter Timothy Manos, 34, was charged Wednesday with 10 federal counts of wire fraud, involving the theft of at least $151,000 from a charitable fund intended for the families of four Lakewood officers slain in 2009.
Washington’s same-sex marriage bill is on its way to Gov. Chris Gregoire for signing in the next few days. The Democrat-controlled state House voted 55 to 43 this afternoon to approve Senate Bill 6239.
Medicaid soon won’t cover emergency-room treatment that state officials decide afterward was “not medically necessary.”
The Legislature is set to approve a measure that would legalize gay marriage in Washington state.
Medicaid soon might stop covering emergency-room treatment that state officials decide afterward was “not medically necessary.”
A proposal to reduce the number of days to legally ignite Fourth of July fireworks in unincorporated Pierce County went down to defeat with a thud Tuesday.
Four Lakewood city employees will be handed pink slips today as officials work to close a budget shortfall of slightly more than $1 million.
Mired in a fiscal swamp of their own making, Tacoma City Council members recoiled Tuesday from the prospect of cutting all city funding for local events such as the Daffodil Festival, Ethnic Fest and neighborhood farmers markets.
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