The Washington state legislative special session that pitched itself into the midnight hours has ended. A little after 6:00 a.m. this morning an agreement on the budget was reached and ended the session. The budget passed the house by a 64-34 margin and passed the senate by a 44-2 vote. ...
UPDATE: Senate Bill 6239 to make Washington the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to wed passed the Senate tonight on a 28-21 vote around 8:00 p.m. The measure now moves to the House of Representatives. If the bill is succesful Gov. Christine Gregoire has declared she will sign it. ...
After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012...
While Washington State is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, transportation funding has remained relatively robust. Over the next eight years, though, existing transportation budgets will face a $1 billion shortfall, and new infrastructure could require between $10 billion and $30 billion in additional revenue. This was the mixed ...
The C-Tran board wants to make it perfectly clear that a sales tax measure it hopes to bring to voters this November to support high capacity transit in Clark County will not be a referendum on light rail. However, unless the board comes up with a back-up funding plan, a ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this video here: On April 25, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced their plan to break ground on the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project* in 2013. 14:00 Kitzhaber: “I appreciate very much the concerns about financing expressed by my ...
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