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OLYMPIA – The state Board of Health is wading into manure management with a proposed “odor management” rule. But farmers are calling bull, noting its duplicative and unnecessary overregulation of animal waste by the state. Under the Dairy Nutrient Management and Federal Clean Water Acts, manure is already regulated by the state Departments of Ecology and Agriculture. State Board of Health officials declined to comment on the objection It calls a “misconception” in a so-called fact sheet available on line. According to the fac...
OLYMPIA – It looks like there will be no state gas tax holiday for Washingtonians despite President Joe Biden's endorsement of the idea. On Wednesday, June 22, the president asked that Congress suspend the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax for three months. "Today I'm calling on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days, through the busy summer season, busy travel season," Biden said. The president also called on states to take action on high gas p...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Airway Heights Corrections Center prison inmates helped battle more than 240 forest fires in 2021. The effort is a result of a partnership between three state agencies that dates back more than 80 years. The Correctional Camps Program is a joint venture of state's Departments of Corrections, Natural Resources, and Children, Youth and Families. The camps are operated by Natural Resources, with prison inmates from the Cedar Creek, Larch, and Olympic Corrections Centers in addition to Airway Heights, the s...
PASCO – Despite a Thurston County Superior Court judge's refusal last week to grant an injunction against two gubernatorial mask mandates, the Silent Majority Foundation is vowing to continue its legal fight. Attorney and Pasco City Councilman Pete Serrano said the lawsuit is over Gov. Jay Inslee's March 11 and March 23 mandates being applied to all 39 counties in the state, even though at the time, two counties didn't have any coronavirus cases and 15 reported less than 10. "Since the governor declared the state of e...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A recent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals against a Redmond, Wash., couple challenging the mandatory repatriation tax could open the door to all manner of wealth taxes, a lawyer representing the couple said. Charles and Kathleen Moore sued the government in 2019, arguing a tax on repatriated assets – created as part of major tax reform legislation passed by Congress in 2017 – violates the U.S. Constitution’s apportionment clause and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause. The Moores cl...
OLYMPIA — The state Liquor and Cannabis Board voted to allow axe-throwing inside liquor establishments as early as July 9. Previously, bars and taverns were prohibited from having axe-throwing in the state. The rule change was prompted by requests from businesses wanting to offer the newly popular activity. "Axe-throwing has become increasing popular as an activity that businesses would like to offer in combination with liquor services – excuse me – liquor service,” Liquor and Cannabis Board Policy and Rules Coordin...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eastern Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, helped get legislation approved by the U.S House of Representatives on Wednesday night that includes language to protect four Lower Snake River dams. "Salmon and dams can-and-do co-exist,” she said Thursday. “Study after study has shown the critical benefits the Lower Snake River dams provide to our region: affordable and reliable hydropower, low-emissions transportation of goods, and irrigation for farmers in Washington who feed the world." The W...