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Shutdown averted: Surprising pundits, Congress adopts clean continuing...
To the astonishment of many pundits, who often lack imagination, Congress today voted to keep the federal government open and buy more time to pass a slew of longer-term appropriations bills — time...
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U.S. House passes another stopgap spending bill to avert shutdown, thanks to...
The United States House of Representatives today voted to keep the federal government open for several more months after new Speaker Mike Johnson orchestrated a vote on a stopgap spending bill not...
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Congress sends President Biden a new stopgap bill to keep federal government...
A partial federal government shutdown has been once again been averted thanks to the eleventh hour passage of a bill in Congress to keep public agencies and the United States military humming for...
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Initiative 2109 (repealing billions of dollars in education funding) gets...
The fourth of six submitted initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature sponsored by Republican State Party Chair Jim Walsh and funded by right wing multimillionaire Brian Heywood was...
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Initiative 2111 (prohibiting fair taxation based on ability to pay) gets...
The fifth of six submitted initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature sponsored by Republican State Party Chair Jim Walsh and funded by right wing multimillionaire Brian Heywood was certified...
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The right wing Washington Policy Center preaches fiscal responsibility, but...
Visit the website of the right wing Washington Policy Center, one of this region’s best known think tanks, and you can find any number of commentaries complaining that public expenditures are too high...
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Direct File is becoming a permanent filing option, IRS announces
The Internal Revenue Service has decided to make its successful Direct Filing option permanent and expand it to all fifty states, in a huge win for taxpayers. The agency announced its decision in a...
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Unsurprisingly, Jim Walsh wants to evade an NPI-championed law that requires...
In a tacit admission that he’s very worried about the electoral prospects for a slate of destructive initiatives that he and multimillionaire funder Brian Heywood managed to purchase votes on last...
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Judge Allyson Zipp incinerates Jim Walsh’s shameful lawsuit to hide fiscal...
A legal challenge filed last month by two prominent Republican party officials that shamefully sought to evade Washington’s new law requiring fiscal transparency in initiative descriptions received a...
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Judge Chris Lanese dismisses Tim Eyman’s groundless legal challenge to...
Former prolific initiative promoter and office chair pilferer Tim Eyman suffered another total defeat in court last Friday when his groundless lawsuit challenging the legality of Secretary of State...
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“We’ll pay more”: Defend Washington’s newest ad emphasizes that Brian...
The coalition working to protect Washington from this year’s crop of bad statewide initiatives unveiled its latest TV spot today. It shares some visuals with its older siblings, but unlike them, it is...
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Donald Trump’s broligarch friends are ready to wreck America’s essential...
One of the best presidents America never had, Adlai Stevenson, put it bluntly when he said: “The ability to govern is the final test of politics, the acid, final test.” Stevenson should have been...
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Washington Republicans are demonstrating that they’ve learned nothing from...
With the results of the 2024 presidential election now certified, elected leaders and activists across Washington are turning their attention to the upcoming legislative session, which begins January...
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House Republicans defy Donald Trump, join Democrats in voting for new stopgap...
The United States House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly late Friday to approve a medium-term appropriations measure that will keep the federal government funded and open through the holidays...
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