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Senate flubs I-960 vote; do-over tomorrow?
You read that correctly. Sen. Margarita Prentice, the Democrats’ budget chair in the Senate, says her colleagues voted to approve the wrong version of a bill suspending Initiative 960 today. Spokesmen for Senate Democrats are blaming a "miscommunication" between lawmakers and staff.As if Republicans didn’t already have enough fun accusing Democrats of “gutting” the so-called Taxpayer Protection Act. Now Democrats say they didn’t mean to merely suspend the two-thirds vote requirement for tax hikes. They really meant to suspend the entire initiative -- including advisory votes in November on any tax hikes approved in the Legislature and also the publication of all tax votes and pro-tax lawmakers’ names.
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UPDATED: Senate votes to suspend I-960's tax-vote limitA divided state Senate voted today to suspend the two-thirds-vote requirement of Initiative 960 for tax increases until July 2011. This moves the Democrat-controlled Legislature another step closer to raising taxes with a simple, 50-percent majority vote.
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Toyota seeks damage control, in public and privateWASHINGTON — In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.
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King Co. jail bookkeeper charged with theft
SEATTLE — A former King County jail bookkeeper has been charged with stealing money from inmates on work release.
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Senate votes to kill two-thirds vote requirement for raising taxes
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.
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Police round up Crips in Tacoma gang sweep
TACOMA, Wash. — Police say a round up of gang members that began at 4 a.m. Tuesday in Tacoma aims to arrest 32 people on 51 charges.
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3 arrested after robbery attempt in Olympia
Olympia police have arrested three young men suspected of trying to rob another man in the parking lot of a grocery store.
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Bremerton nursing home employees fired over photosBREMERTON, Wash. — Three employees of a Bremerton nursing home have been fired over allegations they took nude cell phone pictures of residents.
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Woman struck and killed on I-5 in south Seattle
SEATTLE — A woman walking along Interstate 5 in south Seattle has been struck and killed by a truck and a car.
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Man found shot dead in pickup truck in Seattle
SEATTLE — A man has been found shot to death in a pickup truck at a gas station near Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
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