The $10 billion dollar transportation package announced by Democrats in Olympia yesterday uses familiar methods to raise money for road projects in the state but adds in a few new ones as well. However, the ambitious plan does not include ways to raise the $1.4 billion needed to finish paying off the rebuild of the SR-520 bridge.
In a quest to defend the rights of Americans outlined in the Fourth Amendment, a seeminglyunlikely partnership between a Republican representative and the American Civil LibertiesUnion (ACLU) geared up bipartisan support to pass a bill that would limit the acquisition anduse of surveillance drones by state and local public agencies.
House Democrats rolled out a $10 billion/10-year transportation-revenue package Wednesday, Feb. 20, calling for, among other revenue sources, a 10-cent increase in the gas tax.
