Tacoma council to decide whether to back statewide background checks for all gun buys
The Tacoma City Council could decide Tuesday (Sept. 23) whether to endorse a statewide initiative that would require background checks
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Judiciary
Legislature: enshrine equal political access for all
Here in the progressive Northwest, we like to think that voting rights issues are a problem for the southern “red”
Read MoreGetty v. Microsoft lawsuit could have ripples for all digital creative content
It’s one of the easiest things to do on a computer — search for an image, right click on it
Read MoreAdd a need for adequate prison space to the big issues facing state lawmakers
As if school funding and mental health care didn’t generate enough concerns for next year’s Legislature, now there are dire
Read MoreGet smart on property crime to lower state’s incarceration rate: An Editorial
A smart-on-crime approach to property crime could ease demand for $480 million new prison. WASHINGTON’S prison system is jampacked. Inmates
Read MoreEnd state law that criminalizes mental health patients
Washington is in a real mental-health crisis now, with the state scrambling to open hundreds of psychiatric hospital beds after
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Washington is a political testing ground on gun safety
“Seattle is not unique, it is not immune: Our nation faces an epidemic of gun violence . . . We
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