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(The Center Square) – Majority party Democrats are moving ahead with a bill to expand the attorney general’s authority to investigate violations of state law. Senate House Bill 2161 authorizes the attorney general to “issue civil investigative demands for documents, oral testimony, and answers to interrogatories when investigating possible violations of the United States Constitution, the Washington Constitution, and other specified laws,” according to the bill digest. Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, ranking minority on the
(The Center Square) – State lawmakers heard testimony Friday on a proposal to increase Washington’s cigarette tax by 66% while amending a separate vapor tax to 95% of the products’ taxable sales price. The state already imposes a tobacco products tax, which expanded on Jan. 1 to include nearly all nicotine products except cigarettes and those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Another tax on cigarettes adds $3.02 per pack, and a vapor
(The Center Square) – The Seattle Police Officers Guild is not impressed with Mayor Katie Wilson’s recently announced series of initial steps to prepare the city for a potential surge in federal immigration enforcement. Those initial steps include directing the Seattle Police Department to verify the identification of federal agents and document reports of immigration enforcement activity, prohibiting federal immigration officials from using city-owned or controlled property for enforcement activities, and allocating $4 million to
(The Center Square) – A Washington state lawmaker is asking President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate potential self-dealing and fraud within taxpayer subsidized programs that fund race-based housing grants, daycare subsidies and more. As reported in recent weeks and months by The Center Square, state officials and majority Democrats have so far resisted efforts to call for investigations or outside audits. “We truly don’t have very good mechanisms set up
