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(The Center Square) – The past year has seen a “tremendous amount of demand’ for electric vehicle charging port funding by state agencies, according to remarks made at a recent Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council meeting. The increased demand incidentally coincides with a decline in EV sales in 2025 compared to 2024, though stakeholders remain optimistic about long-term prospects driven in part by used EV sales. The EVCC is a 10-member task force collaborating on ways
(The Center Square) – The Washington State Senate passed a bill on Wednesday lowering blood alcohol limits for impaired driving that critics warn may increase legal exposure for servers and bartenders. The chamber passed Senate Bill 5067 by a 26-23 vote, with six Democrats voting against the proposal and two Republicans siding with the majority. If approved this session, it would lower the state’s blood alcohol concentration, or BAC, threshold for drunk driving from .08%
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson recently delivered his annual State of the State address in front of the legislature in Olympia. His message: prepare for taxes to go up and say goodbye to affordability. From a new high-earner income tax to using state funds to pay for SNAP benefits for non-citizens, Gov. Ferguson’s priorities are out of touch with the issues of working families in our state. The so-called “millionaire’s tax” was the governor’s big-ticket item
When Olympia says, “Don’t look here,” it’s time to start looking really, really hard. Minnesota’s deepening Somali daycare fraud scandal naturally is prompting questions about whether the same thing might be happening in Washington state. And one of the most chilling things I’ve seen lately from our increasingly imperious Democratic leaders is their effort to squelch independent investigation by the news media. They’re saying inquiry is racist. The attorney general is hinting reporters might be
