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WA prepares to roll out $112 million medium heavy duty EV subsidy program

(The Center Square) – The state of Washington is preparing to roll out a $112 million electric vehicle voucher program intended to encourage higher sales of commercial medium and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as off-road equipment. The program’s launch comes as the state Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council recently reported new EV sales are at their lowest level since January 2025 while used EV sales are also down compared to a year prior. State Department of

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Seattle City Councilman calls for saving planned Ballard rail link

(The Center Square) – Seattle City Councilman Dan Strauss urged more 200 residents at a community meeting Wednesday night to lobby members of the Sound Transit Board to save the planned Ballard train light rail station. Strauss is a member of Sound Transit Board as is Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson who has also said she is in favor of keeping the Ballard station in the transit plan. The councilman said, however, the majority of the

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Cesar Chavez Park in Seattle will get a new name after sex abuse allegations

(The Center Square) – Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said a small park in the city’s South Park neighborhood will no longer be called Cesar Chavez Park. Wilson in a blog post Wednesday said that she was taking the action in response to sexual abuse allegations recently reported about the late farmworker advocate. “Parks are community spaces, and everyone who visits should feel welcome there,” Wilson wrote. “When a name causes pain, we have a responsibility

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Op-Ed: Democrats must come to the table to fund Homeland Security

For more than a month, Senate Democrats have blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to try and advance policies that make our country less safe. This has resulted in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, Coast Guardsmen, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) agents going without pay while critical counterterrorism and drug enforcement actions are halted. I joined my colleagues in the House of Representatives in

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