Here are the details from the two Tacoma Democrats, Sen. Steve Conway and Rep. Connie Ladenburg.
They represent the 29th district, including south and central Tacoma and parts of Lakewood and Parkland.
Town Hall No. 1 (Saturday, Jan. 28)
Bates S. Campus Cafeteria
2201 South 78th St.
Tacoma, WA 98409
10 a.m.-Noon
Today both the House and Senate plan floor action.
The Senate is expected to vote on whether to allow drivers to transfer their $30 Discover Pass to a second vehicle. The idea has widespread support and the parks agency says it could help boost flagging sales of the parking pass for state lands.
Today is dentists’ lobbying day — appropriately, just a couple days after dairy farmers brought ice cream for lawmakers on their own lobbying day.
In committee, senators today will consider increasing a state fee on the sale of a wood stove by $15, as requested by
I’m posting this late, but here are the details for anyone in the 26th district — from Gig Harbor to Port Orchard — who wants to call in:
From Democratic Rep. Larry Seaquist’s press release:
What: Rep. Seaquist telephone town hall
When: Thursday, January 26th
6:35 p.m. to 7:35 p.m.
Call-in: 1-877-229-8493
ID Code: 18646
Federal Way is firing a shot across the bow of Sound Transit.
The city is upset that Sound Transit expects to scrap plans to bring light rail to Federal Way by 2023 as part of the $17.9 billion mass transit measure voters approved in 2008. The agency’s tax revenues from South King County have dropped by nearly a third, so the agency plans to delay the extension to South 272nd Street until 2034 or later.
Now six proposals tied to Sound Transit have surfaced in the Legislature with backing from Federal Way.
None of them would bring more trains
A measure aimed at better protecting stalking victims who have no relationship with their stalker got a public hearing today.
It’s designed to prevent cases like that of Jennifer Paulson, a 30-year-old teacher who was shot and killed by her stalker outside Tacoma’s Birney Elementary School in 2010.
Her family told lawmakers that the proposal would have prevented her death.
Attorney General Rob McKenna requested the measure, which would create a new stalking protection order for victims who don’t meet requirements for other types of protection – such as that the perpetrator must be a member of the victim’s family or household.
That was the
By a 4-0 vote, the Washington Public Disclosure Commission dismissed charges of failure to report campaign activities against the state affiliate of the Koch-brother’s conservative organization Americans for Prosperity.
The dismissal comes 15 months after complaints were filed and 16 months after AFP sponsored campaign attacks against 13 incumbent Democratic legislators on the eve of the 2010 election.
And it comes one month after the PDC sent its staff back to work to seek more information about what AFP did and what state law requires. The staff today reinforced its earlier conclusion that AFP stayed under legal thresholds that would
A Senate committee voted unanimously today to approve a bill that seeks to clarify when a permit can be granted for the exercise of religious practices on the state Capitol Campus. Senate Bill 6085 came in response to the denial of a permit last summer to an Olympia church that wanted to hold a baptism along with its yearly barbecue in Heritage Park.
Republican Sen. Dan Swecker of Rochester proposed the bill, and both he and Pastor Paul Jones of Reality Church in downtown Olympia testified in favor of the bill on Jan. 17
Attorney General Rob McKenna said this morning that he filed a lawsuit against spam advertising on Facebook.
The lawsuit accuses Delaware company Adscend Media of allegedly running an ad network that gets Facebook users to unknowingly spread links to friends when clicking on other content.
“As spamers adjust their tactics, we’re adjusting ours,” McKenna said at a joint press conference with Facebook, which filed its own lawsuit against the company in California.
McKenna’s lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District court in Seattle, and alleges violations of several acts against misleading messaging and business practices.
See McKenna’s press release here.
McKenna