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(The Center Square) – A patchwork of “immigration enforcement free zones” will soon land in Spokane under ordinances passed Monday by local officials that also ban detention facilities on private property. The two 6-1 votes should come as no surprise to residents. The Spokane City Council passed laws last August that prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering permitted events without a judicial warrant. Now, the progressive majority is expanding the policy to encompass more
(The Center Square) – Despite key city council opposition to his appointment, Dennis McLerran’s tenure as the new interim general manager and CEO of Seattle City Light isn’t expected to be short. McLerran told The Center Square Monday night that he plans to serve for a year and a half to two years as part of an agreement with Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s administration. The longer term interim role for McLerran comes as City Council
(The Center Square) – The Washington state House Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill concerning a federal drug pricing program known as the 340B Program that one committee member described as a “a cash grab for one major hospital system in Seattle.” “I do not feel or do I not believe that the state has the constitutional authority to actually implement these very burdensome regulations or on one side, but then just unfettered expansion in
Washington’s proposed income tax (AKA “millionaires’ income tax,” Senate Bill 6346) is being promoted as a measure aimed at the ultra-wealthy. But for many small and mid-sized construction contractors, it would function as something very different: a direct tax on the cash flow that keeps their businesses operating. Most construction firms in Washington are not large, publicly traded corporations. They are locally owned LLCs, partnerships, and S corporations — pass-through entities where business income flows
