Opinion
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Make Seattle school bus safety a legislative priority in 2024
As state lawmakers gear up for the 2024 legislative session, it’s incumbent upon representatives from Seattle to hold the cost to tweak state regulation to maintain kids protected whereas using the varsity bus. Proper now, odds are in drivers’ favor; in the event that they blow previous a faculty bus with its cease paddle prolonged whereas kids are boarding or…
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A sham lawsuit threatens to disenfranchise WA’s Latino voters
In 2021 our state’s bipartisan, voter-created Redistricting Fee set Washington’s present legislative and congressional boundaries. In August, a federal judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Soto Palmer v. Hobbs, who claimed the map of Central Washington’s fifteenth Legislative District violates the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA). The decide ordered the boundaries to be redrawn. Underneath state legislation, legislators…
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Victims in juvenile rape cases aren’t getting justice in King County
As the daddy of a preteen daughter, I continually fear about how I will help to supply a secure and shiny future for her as she grows up. As an elected official, I’m additionally known as on to signify the area and make the perfect choices I can to maintain our youth secure. There are specific points that I encounter…
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Defense policy bill good for WA, and for bipartisanship
Political brinkmanship more and more defines the enterprise of presidency in Washington, D.C. Earlier this 12 months, Home Republicans introduced the nation inside days of financial peril by utilizing the debt-ceiling deadline as a bargaining chip to extract spending cuts. Solely a last-minute compromise steered the country clear of a catastrophic default. It regarded seemingly that, following the identical…
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Obligatory commutes: Environmental impacts | The Seattle Times
Re: “Boeing shifts policy, wants all employees back in the office full time” [Dec. 13, Boeing & Aerospace]: The article on Boeing’s impending on-site work coverage addressed its damaging impact upon some staff’ work-life steadiness and the irony of globe-trotting managers imposing such work location necessities. Nevertheless, the article did not assess the damaging environmental impacts of an compulsory commute.…
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Coal: The climate scourge we can’t quit
It’s almost inconceivable to get each nation on the planet to agree on something. However on the newest United Nations local weather talks, leaders representing all of the individuals of Earth held arms and sang in good concord of their shared perception that coal is absolutely the worst. And but too a lot of them nonetheless can’t appear to get…
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Confined youth need better supervision in order to change
When it went into impact, Washington’s new legislation permitting younger individuals convicted of crime to stay in juvenile lockup till age 25 sounded appropriately progressive. A youth facility could be higher in a position to present remedy and schooling at a time when younger individuals’s brains are notably malleable, this rationale held. It will defend them from the predatory tradition…
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King County should help fund new site to shelter unhoused Native people
Over the previous 5 years the Chief Seattle Membership has partnered with King County to make non permanent residing quarters for Native folks out of modular properties stationed on a car parking zone in Sodo. It’s helped preserve dozens of individuals off the streets and has performed so in a culturally delicate approach. But, Eagle Village, which began in 2019…
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Return unspent gift card funds to states, not to corporations
Whether or not you have been shopping for a present for a beloved member of the family, or displaying your appreciation on your child’s instructor, there’s a very good likelihood you’ve bought a present card these previous few weeks. Shopper surveys present more than 60% of us are more likely to buy reward playing cards over the vacations. Reward card gross sales…
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Road safety: Consider reflective vests
I used to be dismayed to examine mounting casualties on Washington state roads within the editorial “Lawmakers must intervene to reduce deaths on roads” [Dec. 22, Opinion]. Authorities in any respect ranges has a task to play in making our roads safer. Nevertheless, I want to tackle the personal sector. The editorial didn’t point out the problem of the Northwest…
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