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Art Dahlen isn't one to mince words. And as the founder of Kent-based Battlefield Addiction, he’s grown tired of watching well-meaning policies inadvertently fuel a crisis he said is devastating families and claiming lives at record levels.
The Trump administration has been aggressively reducing the federal government's role in the lives of citizens in many ways, including weakening several consumer protection agencies. The moves have hit a nerve with Consumerman Herb Weisbaum of checkbook.org.
Despite less than a week remaining for the Washington State Legislature, Governor Bob Ferguson is still not embracing the $12 billion package presented to balance the state's $16 billion shortfall.
Democrats in the Washington State Senate pushed through a massive $12 billion tax package over the weekend, despite an explicit call from Ferguson to scale back the level of taxes.
"There's a lot of word-smithing going on right now. The governor and his supporters have said that they're not keen on the so-called wealth tax, which is an increase in the expansion of the state's capital gains tax," Rep. Jim Walsh, the Chair of the state’s Republican Party, said on "Seattle's Morning News" on KIRO Newsradio.
Washington State Representative Mari Leavitt on speeding in the state and her sponsorship of the BEAM Act.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the number of tents in Seattle has been reduced by nearly 80% since 2022, The Seattle Times reported Monday. The media outlet stated in the past two years, the city has removed more than 8,000 tents—going from 1,558 to 215 since the mayor took office.
However, this led KIRO Newsradio contributor Angela Poe Russell to question what the best approach is regarding homelessness, mentioning that fewer tents do not necessarily mean fewer people on the streets.
According to a nationwide survey conducted in 2022 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in 31 children studied had been diagnosed with autism—a significant increase from the one-in-every-36 reported in 2020, and an even larger increase from the one-in-every-150 in 2000.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is spearheading the efforts in identifying the root causes of the childhood chronic disease epidemic, which includes the increase in autism among kids.
Leland Vittert, anchor of NewsNation's prime-time "On Balance," weighed in on the recent study on "Seattle's Morning News."
Randy Pepple's thoughts on the legislature