Austin Jenkins
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Inslee signs $52.4 billion budget decried by Republicans
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed into law a $52.4 billion, two-year state budget that he said "rises to the needs of our time," but that...
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Locking up mentally ill, drug addicted people results in jail deaths, new report says
The practice of locking up people who are chronically sick, mentally ill or drug addicted in under-resourced city, county and regional jails in...
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Inslee to sign WA vape tax that critics say amounts to a big tobacco giveaway
After years of debate, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is scheduled to sign into law on Tuesday a new tax on vaping products to fund cancer research and...
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Will Washington state's new public option plan reduce health care costs?
Millions of Americans who buy individual health insurance, and don't qualify for a federal subsidy, have been hit with sticker shock in recent years....
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Will Washington State's New 'Public Option' Plan Reduce Heath Care Costs?
This week Washington passed a law to create a new kind of public health insurance. It could inspire other states to try so-called "public option" plans. But how well will it work to bring costs down?
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Washington becomes first state to offer public health insurance option, long-term care benefit
Washington is poised to become the first state in the nation to offer a public health insurance option, as well as a new, employee-paid long-term care...
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Opioid distributors sued by WA attorney general get to keep their better-than-Boeing tax break
At the same time Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing three Fortune 15 pharmaceutical distributors for allegedly “fueling the state’s...
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Inslee unveils aggressive plan to cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030
Campaigning for president in California on Friday, Washington's Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, is expected to call for all new cars and new buildings to be carbon-free by 2030 and all electricity to go carbon-free by 2035.
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Affirmative action opponents file referendum to overturn I-1000
Opponents of affirmative action filed a referendum Monday morning to overturn Initiative 1000, which majority Democrats in the Washington Legislature...
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Washington lawmakers are done this year. Here’s what they passed — and didn’t — in 2019
Washington lawmakers just wrapped up an action-packed, 105-day session with passage of the first state budget to exceed $50 billion and a bundle of tax...