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State leaders vow to preserve net neutrality in Washington state. Seattle Magazine / Dec. 14, 2017 By Dan Shafer Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other state legislators and business leaders announced Wednesday that Washington would seek to “preserve an open internet” on the state level if the Federal ...

Crosscut / Dec. 14, 2017 By Allegra Abramo CLICK TO READ FROM SOURCE Five years after a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, some state lawmakers see a chance to finally pass key gun-control and safety measures that have eluded ...

The Redmond Reporter / Dec. 13, 2017 By Aaron Kunkler CLICK TO READ FROM SOURCE Democratic state legislators announced their intention to pursue sweeping gun control reforms in the upcoming 2018 session at a press conference on Tuesday morning in Seattle. Central to this would be SB 5444, which was introduced in ...

King 5 / Nov. 29, 2017 By Allison Sundell CLICK TO VIEW FROM SOURCE State Senator Manka Dhingra was sworn in to office Wednesday giving Democrats control of the state House and Senate for the first time in five years. Dhingra, who won a special election in the 45th Legislative District, said ...

The Cascadia Advocate / Nov. 29, 2017 By Andrew Villeneuve CLICK TO READ FROM SOURCE Control of the Washington State Senate officially passed into Democratic hands for the first time in five years this afternoon as Senior Deputy Prosecutor Manka Dhingra was sworn in as the state’s newest senator, succeeding Republican ...