Category: Policy Topics

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

by Andrew Villeneuve

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.

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An ethnolinguistic view of King County’s evolution over the last two hundred years

by Subhadra Vadlamannati

King Coun­ty is a place that encom­pass­es not just land but the sto­ries of diverse lives that have shaped its past and con­tin­ue to shape its present and future. Nes­tled in the heart of Wash­ing­ton state, King Coun­ty holds with­in its bound­aries the bustling metrop­o­lis of Seat­tle, a city known not only for the icon­ic Space Nee­dle but also for its role as a melt­ing pot of cul­tures, ideas, and histories.

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Republican megadonor Brian Heywood opens his wallet to fund six-initiative signature drive

by Andrew Villeneuve

A wealthy donor to the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty has begun fun­nel­ing seri­ous mon­ey into a sig­na­ture dri­ve that aims to qual­i­fy a slew of six right wing ini­tia­tives to the 2024 Wash­ing­ton State Leg­is­la­ture, reports filed this week with the Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion by his polit­i­cal com­mit­tee show.