OLYMPIA – While a House committee considered plans Tuesday to cut wages for some of the state's lowest-paid private workers, a Senate committee tried to emphasize the state doesn’t pay the salaries of its highest-paid public workers. The House Labor Committee considered five different changes…
Drum circle in the Capitol Rotunda. OLYMPIA -- The best thing about the Capitol is one never knows what one will find going on in there. Sometimes it's a dairy princess serving up ice cream bars. Sometimes its the cattlemen offering 'burgers. (S-R reporters have…
OLYMPIA -- A debate of the same-sex marriage bill on the Senate floor is all but locked in for Wednesday, but the time is still up in the air. The Senate has its regular session scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, but that's in the middle…
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