Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues in introducing the Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act, which would create a competitive grant program to provide funding to combat the causes and consequences […]
Top appropriators press Trump administration for details about its vast, illegal plans to unilaterally weaken and reorganize HHS—calling for the “radical transparency” it has promised but utterly failed to deliver Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty […]
by Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State StandardMarch 31, 2025 Washington state senators revealed a proposal Monday to raise billions of dollars to pay for the court-ordered removal of culverts blocking the migration of salmon and other […]
by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardMarch 31, 2025 Funding of Washington’s public schools is one of the tougher wrinkles House and Senate budget writers must iron out in the weeks ahead. Democrat-drafted proposals in the […]
by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, Washington State StandardMarch 31, 2025 Ana Rosa Bello broke down in tears as she recalled the repeated abuse she has endured as a housekeeper in Seattle. Bello described wage theft, discrimination, […]
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