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FILTER RESULTS ►Washington Closes Troubling Marital Rape Loophole, to the Relief of Wives
Until yesterday, "But we're married!" was a perfectly adequate defense in our state to the charge of rape in the third degree, as well as the euphemistically named crime "indecent liberties." Fortunately, Governor Jay Inslee signed a...Show More Summary
Surprise: Governor Inslee Calls Special Legislative Session After Lawmakers Fail to Pass Budget
After four predictably dysfunctional months, Washington State's 2013 legislative session ended tonight without passing crucial operations, capital, or transportation budgets, prompting Governor Jay Inslee to call a special session to begin May 13. The state's current two-year budget ends June 30, so a special session has long been inevitable. Show More Summary
Washington State Goes Gender Neutral
Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a bill earlier this week that will change all the state's statutes, dating back to 1854, to gender-neutral descriptions.
Terms like "Firemen" have also already been changed to "firefighters," but the new law will go further, adjusting words like "ombudsmen" to "ombuds," and "watchmen" to "security guards."
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Washington State enacts new Backpage law
Inslee Passes New Penalties for Online Minor Sex Ads: The State of Washington show once again why they’re in the forefront of trying to put a stop to the online sex trafficking of children. Last week Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law that would fine someone $5,000 to anyone caught advertising CoughBackpagecough a [...]
Washington Removes Gender from State Statutes
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as "fisherman" and "freshman" with "fisher" and "first-year student," Reuters...Show More Summary
A Pay Raise That Olympia Can Get Behind
Republican state legislators, Democratic state legislators, and the governor all agree on something! From the Secretary of State's office: Gov. Jay Inslee has signed legislation boosting the expense allowance for members of the state’s Electoral College, the party activists who cast the state’s electoral votes for the U.S. Show More Summary
Washington State’s Laws Get a Sex Change
Washington governor Jay Inslee yesterday signed into law the last piece of a multi-year effort to rewrite state statutes in something that resembles Orwell’s Newspeak. Reuters notes that 3,500 state code sections have now been “tediously...Show More Summary
House approves Inslee’s climate change task force
Gov. Jay Inslee gets his first bill through the Legislature as lawmakers say yes to a working group that will explore climate change mitigation. The Washington House approved Gov. Jay Inslee’s bill Monday to create a climate change task force. That’s the first piece of legislation the governor has gotten through the Legislature. Senate Bill [...]
CRC Mega-Highway: How we can move forward, Part 3 of 3
When Governor Jay Inslee appointed Lynn Peterson as the next WSDOT Director, urbanists and sustainable transportation advocates across the country cheered – and some dared to hope that WSDOT would scrap megaprojects like the Columbia River Crossing. But any WSDOT Secretary ultimately reports to the Governor, and indirectly to the legislature. Between the two governors, [...]
Inslee Proposes $1.2 Billion in New Revenue for Education
Governor Jay Inslee released his "Budget Priorities for a Working Washington" today, a blueprint for a state budget if not exactly a budget itself. And the biggest headline is the $1.2 billion in new revenue he proposes raising for the...Show More Summary
Kitzhaber, Inslee call on White House for “strongest possible” review of coal export risks
In a huge blow to coal company cheerleaders, Governor Kitzhaber along with Washington Governor Jay Inslee are now calling on the White House to see to it that federal regulators to adhere to the “strongest possible terms” of review of...Show More Summary
Governors Inslee & Katzhaber Ask Feds to Examine "True Costs" of Coal Export Terminals
Governor Jay Inslee has remained irritatingly coy on the subject of several proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, and the mile-and-a-half-long coal trains they would send rumbling through Washington State. Until, perhaps,...Show More Summary
Legislature Passes Inslee Climate Bill
The state House passed SB 5802 on 61-32 vote today, sending it on to Governor Jay Inslee's desk for his signature. The bill, which will create a Climate Legislative and Executive Work Group to evaluate and recommend approaches to reducing...Show More Summary
Washington Governor Makes Weld on State’s Second Ferry
Washington Governor Jay Inslee officially kicked off the construction of M/V Samish, the state’s newest 144-car ferry, by making the first weld on the vessel at
Washington state governor worried budget cuts will hit nuke cleanup
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state Governor Jay Inslee on Wednesday warned billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts could hamper the U.S. government's ability to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation site in his state, where six underground...
Washington State Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking
Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear site in the state of Washington are leaking, authorities say. Governor Jay Inslee (D) described the situation at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as "disturbing news." But he stressed that there was no current risk to human health. Show More Summary
Annnnnnd the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is leaking again.
Yes, “leaking.” Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday. [snip] The tanks, which already are long past their intended 20-year life span,...Show More Summary
Governor Finds That Six Tanks of Radioactive Waste, Not Just One, Are Leaking at Hanford
This awful news just arrived in an e-mail from the governor's office: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Washington Gov. Jay Inslee today that the U.S. Department of Energy has determined there are six, single-shell tanks leaking radioactive waste at Hanford. Show More Summary
Six Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks Leaking In Washington State
Gov. Jay Inslee said there was no immediate public safety threat from the alarming leak. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford nuclear reservation are leaking, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee told reporters on Friday. The...Show More Summary
Six Nuclear Tanks Are Leaking At Hanford
Six underground nuclear tanks are leaking at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, according to Governor Jay Inslee. Inslee announced the development on Friday after he met with federal officials in Washington, D.C. The governor announced last week that one tank was leaking. Hanford is the United States’ most contaminated nuclear site. It was [...]Show More Summary
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