Cornfield Report

Budget talks gain speed; COVID may shift state into reverse

Here’s what’s happening on Day 87 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Could a carbon tax find its way into a grand bargain?

Here’s what’s happening on Day 85 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Biden may seek to house migrant children in Washington

Here’s what’s happening on Day 82 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

State transpo package arrives, clean fuel standard motors on

Here’s what’s happening on Day 80 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Budgets, school re-openings and data privacy

Here’s what’s happening on Day 78 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Senate Democrats go big with budget. Will House go bigger?

Here’s what’s happening on Day 75 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Urgent responses to the Blake decision emerge in Olympia

Here’s what’s happening on Day 73 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Clean-fuel bill seems to be bypassing a key Democratic foe

Here’s what’s happening on Day 71 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

5 ways to spend federal aid, 1 reason to pass capital gains

Here’s what’s happening on Day 68 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

A revenue jackpot; Democrats lukewarm to Inslee school order

Here’s what’s happening on Day 66 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Reopening schools, reviving a drug law and debating taxes

Here’s what’s happening on Day 64 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

A bundle of billions and an imbalance of power

Here’s what’s happening on Day 61 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Working families win; state is No. 1; dinosaur bill dies

Here’s what’s happening on Day 59 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Taxing debates on capital gains, police reform, evictions

Here’s what’s happening on Day 57 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Inslee: The president made me speed up teacher vaccinations

Here’s what’s happening on Day 54 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Lawmakers — and 8,000 others — await a capital gains tax bill

Here’s what’s happening on Day 52 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Clean fuels and police tactics advance, drug law fix arrives

Here’s what’s happening on Day 50 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Money, drugs, hackers and the wait continues for Phase 3

Here’s what’s happening on Day 47 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Private prisons, police reform and a Black pioneer’s plaque

Here’s what’s happening on Day 45 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

Soda pop tax surfaces as school reopening battle rages on

Here’s what’s happening on Day 43 of the 2021 session of the Washington Legislature.

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