Pastor Carey Anderson, a Democratic candidate for State Representative in the 30th Legislative District, was shot at close range by a BB gun Thursday evening.
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Canada Day revelation: Amtrak Cascades to resume service to B.C. in September
Regularly scheduled train service between British Columbia and the rest of the Pacific Northwest will be resuming in the fall, rather than in the winter, the Washington and Oregon Departments of Transportation announced today.
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Sound Transit Board unanimously hires Julie Timm as its new Chief Executive Officer
“I am profoundly grateful to join the Sound Transit team’s work to transform lives across the Puget Sound region for generations to come,” Timm said in a prepared statement.
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Patty Murray urges Republicans to stop blocking gun safety bills in the U.S. Senate
Washington State has shown what can be accomplished even in the face of strident opposition from the gun lobby, but Congress has not, because Senate Republicans have sadly blocked any and all progress to date.
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Sound Transit announces that search team’s pick for new CEO is Julie Timm of Virginia
Timm is currently CEO of Greater Richmond Transit Company, where her more than four hundred employees operate successful regional bus routes serving the Richmond, Virginia area.
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Republicans lament slaughter of kids and teachers in Uvalde, but make it clear they’ll do nothing to stop it from happening again
Republicans cannot go against the NRA and the groups aligned with it, not even after the slaughter of schoolchildren and their teachers in a Republican-run state.
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Fifteen slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas by gunman who targeted elementary school
The shooting is the country’s deadliest so far this year, and horrifically similar to a shooting from almost ten years ago, in which a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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President Biden stops in Portland to tout Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The United States is finally taking meaningful steps to address its painfully deep infrastructure deficit, President Joe Biden declared today to a supportive crowd in Portland during his first visit to the Beaver State as Commander-in-Chief.
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Transportation providers endanger health of traveling public in rush to abandon masking
The sudden policy shift, made with absolutely no regard for the potential adverse impacts on immunocompromised passengers, children, or those not wishing to travel in mask optional environments, is yet another development that will likely help prolong the pandemic — with deadly and ominous consequences.
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Move Ahead Washington transportation package gets final legislative approval
The package’s revenue bill passed 54–54 in the House and 29–20 in the Senate, while its appropriations bill passed 57–41 in the House and 30–19 in the Senate.
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Trainspotting with NPI: Watch Link test trains roll through the Eastside on overhead power
Each clip in our Trainspotting series is less than two minutes long, and shows Kinkisharyo-made Sound Transit LRVs rolling along portions of the new East Link/Line 2 alignment using overhead power.
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Two NPI priority bills get concurrence and head to Governor Jay Inslee for signature
Senate Bill 5228 (providing flexible new revenue authority to Sound Transit) and House Bill 1630 (prohibiting the carrying of weapons at local government meetings and election sites) have completed their journey through the legislative process.
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VICTORY! Bill to grant new revenue authority to Sound Transit gets out of state House
Senate Bill 5528, which now returns to the Senate for concurrence, is prime sponsored by Senator Jamie Pedersen (D‑43rd District: Seattle), and championed by Seattle Subway, The Urbanist, the Sierra Club’s Cascade Chapter, Transportation Choices Coalition, NPI, and many other organizations.
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Washington State Senate passes two critically important gun safety bills in evening session
A pair of extremely important, much needed gun safety bills previously approved by the House of Representatives each received constitutional majorities in the Washington State Senate on March 1st, 2022 and are one step closer to becoming laws.