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On a warm June evening, more than 3,000 people gathered on Olympia’s waterfront. Children wearing jerseys from countries around the world kicked soccer balls across Port Plaza while families …
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By Wayne Fournier
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6/30/26
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Washington state’s third-highest-in-the-nation gas tax is going up again on July 1, 2026.
It will be the first “automatic” or “inflation-based” increase since ESHB 2711, signed …
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By Bob Pishue / Mountain States Policy Center
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6/29/26
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It’s becoming more and more clear that Washington's state Legislature continues to spend like crazy.
And while the blame is placed on the eternal boogyman, President Trump, that …
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Commentary bu John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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6/26/26
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When I was younger, I used to hear people talk about “the people who stay.”
Sometimes it was said with admiration, and sometimes it wasn't.
There was often an assumption buried inside …
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Commentary by Wayne Fournier
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6/24/26
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Amidst evidence of signature gatherers being harassed, Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown is offering his support to prosecute those trying to interfere with the initiative and referendum …
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By Sam Cardwell / Mountain States Policy Center
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6/22/26
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What happened on May 26, 2026, is horrible.
Eleven people died in Longview.
That sentence should stop all of us for a moment. Eleven workers left for work and never came home after a …
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6/19/26
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The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into …
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Commentary by Rodney D. Coates / For The Washington State Standard
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6/19/26
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On June 5, the director of Gov. Bob Ferguson's Office of Financial Management (OFM) sent every state agency a letter telling them to brace for what she called "the most challenging budget any of us …
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By Ryan Frost / Washington Policy Center
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6/15/26
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Ten years ago, when AWB’s first Manufacturing Week bus tour crossed the state, we had many goals, such as highlighting the great jobs available in our state’s modern manufacturing sector and …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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6/10/26
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Dear Editor, I am writing to express the deep concern over the May 14 article on the “first joint meeting between the City of Yelm and Yelm Community schools (YCS) since 2019” … since 2019. It …
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6/10/26
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Timothy was dead for a week in Seattle’s Discovery Park, lying halfway inside the door of his tent, when an officer investigating rumors of “a body in the woods” finally found him on March 31. …
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By Marsha Michaelis / Discovery Institute
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6/9/26
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I understand why Gov. Bob Ferguson would lash out at Washington Republican Party Chairman Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen.
The Grays Harbor County lawmaker has made it his job to call out Ferguson …
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By Chad Taylor
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6/5/26
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This spring, communities across the country will gather to celebrate a familiar milestone.
Caps and gowns, diplomas, graduation parties, proud parents taking photographs and trying, …
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Commentary by Wayne Fournier
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6/5/26
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Late last month, thousands of retired Washington police officers and firefighters were forced to file a federal class-action lawsuit against their own state government to block a historic $4 billion …
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By Sen. Jim McCune
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5/29/26
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Each year in Washington, wildfire season arrives with a familiar sense of unease.
The smoke that settles into our valleys, the images of aircraft and engines converging on distant ridgelines, …
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Commentary by Wayne Fournier
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5/29/26
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When a local treasure closes, some business closures are transactions. Others feel like the loss of a gathering place, a tradition, a little piece of community memory. For my family, Out Back …
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5/27/26
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This year, Lake Lawrence celebrates a milestone — the 40th anniversary of the Lake Lawrence Lake Management District (LMD), the oldest and longest-running LMD in Washington state. What began in …
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5/27/26
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I heard from one of my old Navy shipmates that the USS Juneau (LPD-10) will be sunk as a SINKEX target this summer. The USS Dubuque (LPD-8) went down the same way back in 2024. Those are the two …
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By Rob Richards
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5/27/26
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I start each workday by reviewing the latest economic and government reports for Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming. It doesn’t take long to see a trend. Those states that prioritize fiscal …
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By Jason Mercier / Mountain States Policy Center
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5/22/26
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For 15 years, Washington has lived with an uncomfortable truth: we rank dead last in the nation for police staffing per capita. And instead of reversing course, the Legislature continues to pass laws …
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By Jared Nieuwenhuis / Councilmember, City of Bellevue
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5/22/26
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