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(The Center Square) – Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown signaled support on Thursday for a state proposal to limit the ability to enforce local camping bans, but raised concerns about how it could impact Spokane. Brown attended the Spokane Homeless Coalition’s monthly meeting on Thursday to provide an update on the city’s programs. It came days after state lawmakers advanced House Bill 2489, setting it up for a potential floor vote later this session, after years
Despite Washingtonians consistently and overwhelmingly rejecting income taxes and the Legislature in 2024 enacting I-2111 to prohibit state or local income taxes, some lawmakers in the Evergreen State are again pushing for an income tax this year. The proposals are initially structured as a 9.9% income tax on “millionaires.” Nearly 100 years of state supreme court legal precedent in Washington, however, prohibits a non-uniform income tax in excess of 1%. Here are seven questions lawmakers
(The Center Square) – As a legal battle continues regarding legislative privilege exempting state lawmakers from the Public Records Act, a proposed Senate Joint Resolution would, if approved by two thirds of the state Legislature and Washington voters, give the public explicit access to legislators’ communications regarding introduced or potential legislation. The court battle over whether or not legislative privilege exists has existed for several years, with a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruling in
(The Center Square) – An independent investigation has cleared Spokane Police Ombuds Bart Logue of conflicts of interest, concluding that his private consulting firm was “pre-authorized,” despite the fact that he incorporated it 15 months before he notified the city in writing, records obtained by The Center Square show. The investigation submitted last week follows an ethics complaint alleging that Logue used his city position for personal gain. It ultimately found no evidence that “such
