OLYMPIA – As legislators worked this week to blend the state’s recreational and medical marijuana laws, Spokane Valley officials asked them to consider one more wrinkle in the rapidly changing marketplace: pot lounges.
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee denounced recent vandalism against Hindu temples in the metropolitan Puget Sound, calling them "acts of intolerance, intimidation and violence."
OLYMPIA – A bill to give Washington State University permission to start its own medical school might seem like a locomotive sitting at the station, ready to steam down the track. After all, it’s got two-thirds of the state House of Representatives as co-sponsors. Now supporters must work to keep extra cars from being attached to that train.
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