02/09/10 Western Washington Districts Look To Raise Money With Levies Billions of dollars for schools are on the line in today's special election in our state. And if some schools don't get their levies passed today, they'll be facing some major cuts. 02/09/10 The Legislature would be able to raise taxes this session and next with a simple majority vote under a bill approved Tuesday in the state Senate. 02/09/10 The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. 02/09/10 The Legislature would be able to raise taxes this session and next with a simple majority vote under a bill approved Tuesday in the state Senate. 02/09/10 Elmore County Sheriff Deputies arrested an escaped prisoner from Port Orchard, Wash., in the Pasadena Valley area, just east of Glenns Ferry, at about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. 02/09/10 The Legislature's Democratic majority is clearing the way for tax increases with its first major vote to brush aside Initiative 960. 02/09/10 OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Legislature's Democratic majority is clearing the way for tax increases with its first major vote to brush aside Initiative 960. The initiative was passed by voters back in 2007. It requires a two-thirds majority of lawmakers to pass a tax increase. On Tuesday the Senate narrowly voted to suspend that part of the initiative. The bill passed 26-23. Five Democrats voted ... 02/09/10 The Legislature would be able to raise taxes this session and next with a simple majority vote under a bill approved Tuesday in the state Senate. 02/09/10 The Washington state Senate voted 30-18 Tuesday to help businesses in Kent, Auburn, Renton and Tukwila obtain hard-to-find supplemental flood insurance and prevent job losses. 02/09/10 The state Senate voted narrowly Tuesday to let tax increases pass on a simple majority vote, suspending the two-thirds requirement under voter-approved Initiative 960. The vote moved the Democrat-controlled Legislature another step closer to being able to raise taxes as lawmakers work to plug a budget gap now measuring $2.2 billion. 02/09/10 President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the international community was moving "fairly quickly" toward imposing broader sanctions on Iran, as the Islamic Republic defiantly expanded its nuclear program. 02/09/10 by Martha Brannigan and Jacqueline Charles As Haiti begins digging out from under 60 million cubic meters of earthquake wreckage, U.S. firms have begun jockeying for a bonanza of cleanup work. It's unclear at this point who will be awarding the cleanup contracts, but there is big money to be made in the rubble of some 225,000 collapsed homes and at least 25,000 government and office buildings ... | 
