The new rule would increase the cost of citizenship applications for green card holders by 83%, from $640 to $1,170. It would also, for the first time ever, add a fee to asylum applications.
If Initiative 976 survives the courts, it will mean cuts to bus hours and, possibly, staff.
A new law will automatically enroll students who meet or exceed state standards in the classes. Advocates say it doesn’t go far enough.
Once at the vanguard of drug liberalization, Washington has fallen behind as others have legalized some psychedelics. Now one group of activists wants to catch up, and then some.
In Olympia, the appetite for lifting statewide restrictions on rent control has been minimal in the past. But some think that could be changing.
