📣 3/18 Tuesday Hearings: Taxation, Public Safety, 2A Restrictions and more Taxation! Time to testify! Nancy D Churchill Mar 17, 2025 This is a very long list of bills that will have a hearing on Tuesday, 3/18. ! There are only 2 PRO bills, but 25 (‼️) CON bills! Some of these are brand new! A few we didn’t notice before, but at least one is “NTIB,” or necessary to implement the budget. I ...
WWU Faculty Call on Administration to Meet Student Demands Dear President Randhawa, Provost Johnson, and WWU Board of Trustees, Students on college campuses across the country are demanding that their institutions live up to the values they claim to uphold. On May 3, 2024, a diverse coalition of Western Washington University (WWU) student organizations, led by WWU’s Jewish Voice for Peace and Arab Student Association, presented you with a list of demands. Students are ...
WA Farmers Put EPA, DOJ On Notice: Backroom Tactics Will Be Exposed "Save Family Farming files new public records requests to demand transparency, hold agencies accountable as EPA, DOJ continue campaign against Washington state farms." "Dairy closes under the cost of dealing with EPA and Department of Justice" (EVERSON, Wash.) Farmers are demanding transparency from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Justice, by filing new requests for key public records ...
PRESS RELEASE - Feb. 25, 2025 Press Contact: Dillon Honcoop, dhoncoop@savefamilyfarming.org Is Sen. Saldaña More Worried About ‘Climate Resiliency’ Than Helping Struggling Farmworkers? Despite claims of providing economic relief for farmworkers, new Saldaña proposal fails to put any money back in workers’ pockets—while paying farms to fight climate change. (OLYMPIA, Wash.) A new proposal claiming to ease the burden of new state agricultural overtime rules is moving forward in the state Senate, ...
HB 1584 Ending vote by mail for non-absentee voters and restoring in-person voting at polling places and voting centers. Please COMMENT and SUPPORT: By Misty Flowers: When it comes to politics, some subjects have been too taboo to discuss on both sides of the political isle: Election Integrity is one. The concern has been, if we discuss election problems, voters aren't going to turn out. But the truth is Election Integrity has been a major ...
Notes from the Be-Brave Organization: Saturday Feb. 15th: * RALLY for Parental Rights in Olympia!!! 12pm NOON State Capitol, North Steps. Several bills are being pushed through to protect perpetrators of sexual misconduct with children and to WITHOLD student information from Parents This week I will highlight a few worth responding to although there are MANY. HB 5181 So MANY BILLS! Since Trump's entry into the White House, there has been a very busy ...
John Lesow Guest Writer In May of 2024, I suggested in a Guest Editorial that Planners in Washington and British Columbia were on the same page--the Wrong one--in their efforts to address the "Housing Crisis" and "Affordability" in their respective communities of Bellingham and North Vancouver, B.C. The results of the Provincial election in British Columbia on October 19 show that the electorate remains deeply divided on the government's plan to ...
Is Ranked-choice voting right for Whatcom County? First the definition - Ranked-choice voting is when voters choose their top three candidates for positions in order of preference. If a candidate wins a majority of votes, he or she is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of the votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. All votes that rank the failed candidate as their first choice are eliminated and ...
Brian Heywood on October 14th Posted the following on his twitter account "That Damn Mormon": Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon Jim Walsh & Brian Heywood @bkheywood ""LWSD and Redmond parents!!! Alert Did you know that the school is using your children and the national honor society and school time for political activity to promote a Teachers Union poltical agenda? The note that went out below mentions 2109 which would repeal ...
STATEWIDE RACES: So for Governor your on your own. Rest of State Wide: 1. US Senate Raul Garcia. 2. 2nd Congressional District Leif Johnson 3. Lt Governor: Dan Matthews 4. Secretary of State Dale Whitaker 5. State Treasurer Sharon Hanek. 6. State Auditor Matt Hawkins 7. Attorney General Pete Serrano. 8. Public Lands Jaime Herrera Butler 9. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction David ...
