Op-Ed: 2026 Washington Poll: Voters want economic focus, spending restraint, and ed transparency

Mountain States Policy Center on January 13 released results from the first annual Washington Poll, a new statewide research ...

Washington state budget: A spending problem?

The question is whether this state budget shortfall is the result of insufficient tax revenue, or whether spending reductions ...

2026 Washington state legislative session begins

With the banging of gavels, the Washington state Legislature opened its sprint of a 60-day session Monday in Olympia. The ...

Washington state lawmakers to focus in on immigration in legislative session

The shortened session will feature bills that would ban face coverings for all law enforcement agents and put guardrails for ...

State of the state: Gov. Ferguson highlights floods, housing, taxes and ferries

Gov. Bob Ferguson used his first State of the State address to highlight Washington’s flood response, economic strength and a ...
The Columbian

WA’s new resident portal promises easier access to state services

Rep. Monica Stonier, D-Vancouver, is interviewed by Washington's public affairs network, TVW, during session in Olympia, Wash., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (Alisha Jucevic/The Columbian) For Washington ...
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How Washington state lawmakers want to regulate AI

Yale Moon, a senior at Lake Washington High School, uses generative artificial intelligence in his free time to create fake images and videos.
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Should Washington’s data centers generate their own clean energy to get tax breaks?

In one of his first acts as Washington’s governor, Bob Ferguson created a workgroup of environmentalists, tech leaders, and government officials to find common ground in the great AI data center ...