Author: Freda Brown
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday said County Sheriffs who deny enforcing Washington’s new, stricter gun laws could be held liable if they refuse to perform enhanced background checks and someone who shouldn’t buy a gun is able to buy one and uses it in a crime. In an open letter to law enforcement, […]
Jerry Stritzke has spent the past five years assisting build REI’s brand as one of the most ethical players in the outdoor retail business in the country. Recently REI’s CEO Jerry Stritzke admitted that he himself had gotten on the wrong side of the rules. According to a statement from the company, on Tuesday, staffs […]
As the City Council elections are looming, Seattle has started mailing out Democracy Vouchers to residents for donating to candidates. Officials plan to send the vouchers to 463,000 residents Tuesday if weather permits. All seven of the council’s district seats will be open for grabs in 2019 elections, and as of now, 39 candidates have […]
Washington Voters passed a controversial bill making new stricter regulations on Gun Law with a majority as much as 60 percent voting in support of the initiative. But, now it seems voters are not the ones who decide the future course of the bill. At least 13 County Sheriffs across Washington, from the Pacific Coast […]
The Puget Sound region’s cold temperature has taken the life of a 59 years old homeless man. He has been living without an address for a long time, and he breathed his last at the Sodo light-rail station. Derek C. Johnson, the homeless man, was found by a Link light-rail train operator, he saw the […]
Washington lawmakers have introduced a bill on Monday which aims to eliminate a decades-old cap on the number of special education students the state will fund. It is one of the several steps to be taken to address Washington State’s special education funding crisis, which has left thousands of special needs students without access to […]
With the rise and outbreak in the cases of measles, Gov Jay Inslee has already prompted to declare a state of emergency. It confirmed that there is 35 case of measles in the state of Washington, and there’s a huge outbreak of it. On Friday, Inslee said in his proclamation that measles is a very […]
Seattle has been facing spinouts, power outages and flight delays, but the condition is not going to be better anytime soon. More snow and icy conditions are expected in Seattle for a few days more. Another snow band was scheduled to move through Seattle between 2 and 4 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather […]
Whatcom County, in the northwest corner of Washington State, is home to six key areas on the Audubon Society’s Great Washington State Birding Trail, Cascade Loop. Patient bird lovers, hoping to fill in their agendas, locate a rich set of review destinations to spot several species, particularly waterfowl and birds of prey. Its backwoods, swamps, […]
An unprecedented unethical act by the Sheriff’s office has made the whole legal fraternity worried. Defense attorneys in San Juan County worry that Sheriff Ron Krebs has a tool to manipulate on the scales of justice after learning he used a courtroom security camera to zoom in on defense documents and a juror’s notebook during a […]