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The battle over parental rights and how Washington school districts are responding will be front and center for two days of meetings this week of the Professional Educator Standards Board .
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/13/26
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The Washington Department of Commerce on Wednesday provided The Center Square with a complete list of taxpayer-funded daycare providers' names and locations, reversing an earlier decision not to …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/13/26
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The Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC), in partnership with the Washington state Department of Health (DOH), has made the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline available to incarcerated …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/13/26
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Starbucks is moving forward with a new series of 61 staff reductions in its corporate headquarters in Seattle.
All the layoffs are in the company’s technology department and are a result of a …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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5/13/26
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Environmental activists have raised the $32,000 needed to spare the trees surrounding a campground on the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula from logging.
In what appears to be a …
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By Aspen Ford / Washington State Standard
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5/13/26
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Last year, FIFA President Gianni Infantino likened this year’s World Cup to “104 Super Bowls.”
With the soccer tournament a month away, that’s feeling like a stretch.
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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5/13/26
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Let’s Go Washington launched an initiative campaign Tuesday aimed at repealing Washington’s new income tax.
As reported by The Center Square, LGW last Friday secured ballot titles and …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/12/26
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court’s pause on telehealth abortion access until May 14.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s …
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By Sofia Resnick / Stateline
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5/12/26
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Nearly six months after The Center Square began investigating inexplicably large taxpayer subsidies to home daycare providers in King County, the state has yet to announce plans to thoroughly audit …
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By Carleen Johnson and TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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5/11/26
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The conservative political committee Let’s Go Washington plans to soon begin gathering signatures as part of its push to overturn the state’s new income tax on high earners.
But the group …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/11/26
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Gray wolves are gaining numbers in Washington, continuing a trend that began nearly 20 years ago.
The newest official gray wolf population lists at least 270 wolves in 49 packs based on surveys …
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By TVW
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5/11/26
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A regional timber industry group warns that Washington’s Department of Natural Resources is headed for deep budget trouble that will result in state worker layoffs and force taxpayers to foot more …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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5/11/26
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The federal student loan system is set to see a dramatic overhaul beginning this summer, and critics warn it likely will make loans more expensive and difficult to obtain for borrowers — driving …
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By Shauneen Miranda / Washington State Standard
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5/10/26
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From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer.
That snowpack …
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By Alex Brown / Washington State Standard
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5/10/26
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Pressure is mounting on Washington Governor Bob Ferguson to decide if Washington will opt into the federal education tax credit scholarship program, now that a second Democratic governor has signaled …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/8/26
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Gov. Bob Ferguson is the first Washington governor in more than 30 years to be found in violation of the state's executive ethics law, according to the board's enforcement website.
The governor …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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5/8/26
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Let’s Go Washington on Friday announced they have received their initiative ballot titles from the office of Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown, as the group prepares to launch a …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/8/26
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Starting in June, Washingtonians on Premera Blue Cross insurance may no longer pay in-network rates at MultiCare hospitals and clinics, if the insurer and healthcare organization can’t agree on …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/8/26
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Seattle is already looking for ways to generate more transportation funding, just two years after voters approved a $1.55 billion property tax, the largest transportation levy in city history.
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Tim Clouser | The Center Square
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5/7/26
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A Seattle City Council committee on Wednesday approved Mayor Katie Wilson's plan to expand tiny home villages for the city’s homeless population.
The plan could almost double the 600 beds in …
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By Randy Diamond | The Center Square
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5/7/26
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