Housing Action, Assault Weapons Ban and the State’s Largest Biennial Budget Among Highlights After 105 days, the 2023 Washington State legislative session came to a close Sunday night. With Democrats controlling the majority in both houses, there were sweeping new restrictions placed on firearm purchases …
District 1 Vacancy Renews Interest In County’s Top Jobs Local politics are getting a good dust-off post-pandemic and whether you’ve been here your whole life, or you moved here last week, you’re bound to feel the impact as Kitsap County faces important decisions about its …
Like our local island and county politics, state-level politics in Washington are increasingly impactful and important to post-pandemic life. In our last Government 101 article we discussed all the ways the state’s structure, its institutions, and representatives function. Now we’re going to focus on how …
How the House, Senate, Governor, Supreme Court + Citizens work together to govern our state Like our local island and county politics, state-level politics in Washington are increasingly impactful and important to post-pandemic life. From setting the statewide policy which guides and frames local decisions, …
How council, city staff and citizen advisory groups work together to govern our island Ever wondered exactly how Bainbridge’s very own special form of local government is intended to work, and how it came to be? In the first of this new series of in-depth …
UPDATE 02/21/23: At the February 14 meeting, City council voted 5-2 not to consider the Haggar Scribner Project as a separate, parallel planning process to the ongoing considerations of updates to city code. Council subsequently voted unanimously to detach the project from next year’s Comprehensive …
UPDATE: 12/07/21: After reviewing documents from the state’s Redistricting Commission, the WA Supreme Court accepted its work, even though parts of it weren’t actually finished on time. That means the commissioners’ agreed-upon redistricting maps (which the commission released a day after the Nov. 15 deadline) …
Bainbridge Island City Council District 2 (North Ward) candidate Brenda Fantroy-Johnson recently sat down to answer 12 issue-and-policy-based questions with Chamber President Stefan Goldby ahead of the 2021 General Election. Recorded via Zoom as an individual 1-on-1 session, this interview is part of a series …
Bainbridge Island City Council District 2 (North Ward) candidate Chris Smith recently sat down to answer 12 issue-and-policy-based questions with Chamber President Stefan Goldby ahead of the 2021 General Election. Recorded via Zoom as an individual 1-on-1 session, this interview is part of a series …
Bainbridge Island City Council District 3 (South Ward) candidate Kent Scott recently sat down to answer 12 issue-and-policy-based questions with Chamber President Stefan Goldby ahead of the 2021 General Election. Recorded via Zoom as an individual 1-on-1 session, this interview is part of a series …