ABORTION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- WSU study: Salary posting requirement has yielded unintended consequences (The Center Square)
- Over a third of WA’s job safety fines are reduced after appeals (Crosscut)
CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM
- Think tank: Gov. Inslee knew cap-and-trade could hike gas prices a decade ago (The Center Square)
- Inslee vows to defend Climate Commitment Act after gas price controversy (The Center Square)
- Exclusive: Gov. Jay Inslee doubles down on the Climate Commitment Act despite high gas prices (MyNorthwest)
CHILD CARE
COURTS (FEDERAL)
COURTS (STATE)
- Washington Supreme Court says WSU had no duty to protect student from sexual assault in an off-campus home (The Spokesman-Review)
- Support staff at Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office push to lift 35-hour work week cap (KING TV)
- Families of Seattle couple killed by light rail train to get $6.5 million (The Seattle Times)
- Hanford workers sentenced for ‘horrendous, horrendous abuse’ in Tri-Cities child porn case (Tri-City Herald)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- Lawmakers discuss new approach as public safety focus gains bipartisan support in 2024 (KIRO TV)
- ‘Endangering peoples’ lives’: WSP cracking down on illegal street racing under new laws in 2024 (KHQ TV)
- Detective: Gold Bar killer who fled into river was ‘armed career criminal’ (The Everett Herald)
DRUG CRISIS
- Overdose fatalities surged in Whatcom County in 2023. How many involved fentanyl? (The Bellingham Herald)
- Father of dead 4-year-old girl arrested in Richland (KEPR TV)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
FISH
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
IMMIGRATION
LAW ENFORCEMENT
LEGISLATURE
- Public safety, affordability top issues for GOP in 2024 legislative session (The Center Square)
- Leading WA lawmakers give media a rundown on their 2024 legislative priorities (The Olympian)
- New session, new bills. Here’s some of what WA lawmakers are proposing in 2024 (The News Tribune)
- Washington state lawmakers to take on fentanyl and housing in Inslee’s final legislative session (AP)
- 2024 Washington legislative preview: Inslee makes case for climate, urges lawmakers to pass his supplemental budget (The Columbian)
- OPINION: The new year brings new hope for a return to calmer times (Kris Johnson President of Association of WA Business/Kitsap Sun)
MENTAL HEALTH
OPERATING BUDGET
OTHER STATES
- Oregon’s flawed rent assistance rollout points to broader unpreparedness, audit finds (The Oregonian)
- Oregon’s Medicaid insurers will redirect $25M in profits to youth mental health needs (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Idaho PUC shields Idaho ratepayers from Washington’s climate policy (Capital Press)
REDISTRICTING
STATE GOVERNMENT
TRANSPORTATION
- Washington lawmakers to tackle transportation project funding during upcoming session (KING TV)
- Bill prefiled ahead of legislative session for Washington’s first Smokey Bear license plate (NCW Life Channel)
- WA ferry system scraps timeline for resuming normal service (The Seattle Times)
- C-Tran raises fares by 10 to 50 cents as agency seeks to recover pre-pandemic rates (The Columbian)
