Highlights include record-setting affordable housing construction and $5 billion plan for fish culverts OLYMPIA – Senate leaders announced their proposal for the 2025-27 capital budget on Monday, which will fund construction and infrastructure projects across Washington […]
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, […]
OLYMPIA… The state Senate’s majority Democrats today passed a $78.6 billion operating budget that relies on the largest tax increase in state history, after rejecting the smaller, no-new-taxes, no-cuts budget proposed by Senate Republicans. The “$ave Washington” budget, […]
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