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(The Center Square) – A $100 million grant program funded by Washington taxpayers in 2025 to boost law enforcement hiring and training has yet to be accessed by cities and counties across the state. Some local officials and lawmakers are voicing frustration with the program, which was hailed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as part of the solution to address the fact that Washington is last in the nation for police staffing per capita. “To date,
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a California law that allowed public schools to conceal a student’s “gender transitions” from their parents, a policy SCOTUS ruled likely violates the First and Fourteenth amendments. The lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Society in 2023 when two Escondido teachers sued the Escondido Unified School District in San Diego County, the California Department of Education and
(The Center Square) – Republicans in the Washington State House of Representatives pushed back with all they had on Saturday, offering amendments and objections to majority Democrats’ supplemental operating budget. But even with five Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with all Republicans in opposition to the budget, the majority party had more than enough votes to push it through the chamber, 52-41. The nearly $80 billion spending plan adds $2 billion in new spending,
(The Center Square) – Selling kratom within the city limits of Spokane and Spokane Valley could soon cost a business its license under proposals set for a vote from each jurisdiction’s city council this week. Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown proposed banning the sale of kratom in December, citing a “vertical spike” in related calls to the Washington Poison Center. Several major cities and states have already banned Mitragyna speciosa, a tropical tree known as kratom,
