(The Center Square) – The Select Committee on the 2024 Transportation Levy is recommending a $1.55 billion transportation levy to be presented to Seattle voters this November rather than a $1.7 billion levy. Transportation Committee Chair Rob Saka’s amended levy proposal increased Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s original bill totaling $1.45 billion to the $1.55 billion package that […]
(The Center Square) – A new plan quietly introduced in the state Senate would create a refundable tax credit for educational expenses, including private school tuition. The proposal would establish the Child Learning Investment Tax Credit, worth up to $8,000 per student, that families could use to reduce their tax liability. It’s scheduled for a vote […]
(The Center Square) – Backers of Initiative 2066 turned in more than 431,000 signatures Tuesday afternoon to the Secretary of State’s Office in Tumwater with the hope of getting the measure to protect energy choices like natural gas and propane on this November’s ballot. The Building Industry Association of Washington, Let’s Go Washington and other partners held two news […]
(The Center Square) — As Pennsylvania starts another fiscal year with a late budget, the public wants more decisive leadership from Gov. Josh Shapiro. Almost three-quarters of registered Pennsylvanian voters want Shapiro to “play a more active role in brokering a bipartisan deal to keep the state budget on track,” according to a new poll from the […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s vice presidential nominee used to be one of the only unknown variables in his 2024 election rematch against President Joe Biden, excluding Trump’s legal entanglements. But with the first sitting congressional Democrat calling on Biden to stand aside as the party’s presumptive nominee before next month’s convention in Chicago, Trump may […]
President Joe Biden is refusing to step down as the Democrats’ presumptive 2024 nominee and appears to be heeding calls for more unscripted moments to prove he’s fit for office following his poor debate performance. Some of Biden’s allies have advised town halls, media interviews, and press conferences to negate the damage of Biden’s lackluster display onstage against former President Donald […]
Four months out from Election Day, activists are still fighting over the rules that will dictate how voters cast their ballots, including in swing states. The parties are preparing for legal battles if the results are close, as they were four years ago. In this series, the Washington Examiner will look at the battles over election rules. Part […]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) will not appear with President Joe Biden when he visits her hometown of Madison on Friday, among his first campaign stops since a debate performance last week that shook Democrats’ confidence in him as their presidential nominee. Baldwin, running for a third term in the Senate battleground of Wisconsin, has not […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is heading to Washington, D.C., to “stand with” President Joe Biden at a meeting with Democratic governors that could decide the party’s presidential nominee this November. Newsom will head to the capital Wednesday “to stand with the President,” a Newsom campaign spokesman told KCRA News. The news comes as murmurs of […]
A group of 25 House Democrats is reportedly getting ready to ask President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election if he does not convince them otherwise in the coming days. A House Democratic aide said the group is preparing to ask Biden to exit the race “if he seems shaky in […]
