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(The Center Square) – In the final hours of the 2026 legislative session, majority Democrats pushed through controversial legislation that creates a Washington state transmission authority within the Commerce Department to help coordinate and finance long-distance electric lines across the state. Senate Bill 6355, sponsored by Sen. Victoria Hunt, D-Issaquah, is aimed at speeding up Washington’s ambitious clean energy laws, some of the most ambitious in the country. Washington state’s Clean Energy Transformation Act, passed
(The Center Square) – Facing a near supermajority, the chair of the Washington State Republican Party has his eyes on five districts heading into the 2026 election cycle in an attempt to regain some control over Olympia. Democrats took control of both chambers of the Legislature after the 2017 election when they secured the Senate. The last time Republicans controlled the statehouse was in 1998, before losing the House in 2002 and the Senate in
(The Center Square) – Seattle’s battle with federal immigration officials is getting even broader. The Seattle City Council is expected at its March 17 meeting to authorize a review of the city’s policies to ensure that the data of residents who participate in Seattle city programs is not given to any federal agency. The sponsor of the legislation, Councilmember Dionne Foster, said at a March 6 city council committee meeting that the concern is that
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over new federal requirements that colleges report detailed data linking race to admissions, financial aid and student outcomes. The administration says the data will help enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. But the states argue the demands are unprecedented, overly burdensome and likely to produce unreliable data that could be used to
