OLYMPIA – A bipartisan group of legislators is pushing a dozen bills to combat human trafficking, particularly among teenage runaways they say are lured into prostitution. Among the targets of the legislation are ads for “escort services” that appear in the back of some newspapers…
OLYMPIA – State workers and public school employees in Washington are supposed to take an oath that they aren’t a member of the Communist Party or any other subversive organization. At least, that’s what state law has said since 1951, when the Subversive Activities Act…
OLYMPIA -- Although most of state government is off today, the Legislature has a work day scheduled. In keeping with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the House has a resolution honoring the late civil rights leader it will pass this morning with some amount…
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