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  • Gluesenkamp Perez won in a Trump district. Now she faces an uprising from the left

    Gene Johnson|May 22, 2025

    Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez gave Democrats a rare win last fall when she defeated a MAGA diehard in a Republican district in southwestern Washington state. Hailed by some as a model for winning back blue-collar voters who abandoned the Democratic Party in last year's elections, the auto repair shop owner shunned partisanship, refused to engage in culture wars, and concentrated on helping people in her district — preserving VA clinics, for example, or backing funding for vocational shop classes. Whether the second-term congresswoman's s...

  • Outgoing Washington governor suggests wealth tax' to avoid cuts to education and police

    Gene Johnson Associated Press|Dec 26, 2024

    Outgoing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing a novel tax on personal wealth above $100 million in hopes of plugging a budget shortfall and averting cuts to education, mental health services and police. The tax would apply to about 3,400 residents, Microsoft founder Bill Gates among them, and bring in $10.3 billion over four years, Inslee, a Democrat, said Tuesday. No other states, and only a few countries, have taxes structured the way Inslee is proposing, according to the Tax Foundation, a...

  • US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes

    Gene Johnson|Jun 27, 2024

    The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities. In a new report, the Biden administration said those cultural, spiritual and economic detriments continue to pain the tribes, which consider salmon p...

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