Monthly Archives: November 2023

Posted inLegislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports

Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (Oct. 30th-November 3rd)

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The week’s major votes includ­ed House pas­sage of a Repub­li­can bill to help wealthy tax cheats by defund­ing the IRS, the House­’s fail­ure to expel George San­tos, and Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion of Jacob Lew to be Ambas­sador to Israel, along with Sen­ate pas­sage of a con­sol­i­dat­ed appro­pri­a­tions bill. 

Posted inElections

64% of Seattle City Council District #3 voters favor 2023 housing levy, NPI poll finds

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Vot­ers in Seat­tle City Coun­cil Dis­trict #3 remain very sup­port­ive of this year’s hous­ing levy, an encour­ag­ing sign for the mea­sure as the final hours of vot­ing in the 2023 local elec­tion cycle get under­way, the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute’s most recent pub­lic opin­ion research sur­vey has found.

Posted inElections

Time to worry about Snohomish County, too: Washington’s right wing frets about Sheriff Adam Fortney’s reelection prospects

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With less than one week to go until Gen­er­al Elec­tion Day 2023, there’s mount­ing evi­dence that local Repub­li­cans and right wing groups are grow­ing con­cerned that key races aren’t going to turn out in their favor, includ­ing a key sher­if­f’s race in Wash­ing­ton’s third largest county.

Posted inPolicy Topics

Sound Transit begins pre-revenue light rail testing on the Eastside, opens RTS garage

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In the lat­est sign that the East­side’s long wait for light rail ser­vice is near­ing an end, Sound Tran­sit this week began pre-rev­enue test­ing on the future 2 Line between Belle­vue and Red­mond and invit­ed the pub­lic to begin using the Red­mond Tech­nol­o­gy Sta­tion garage in the heart of the Microsoft campus.