SACRAMENTO — A Washington state Senate committee last week passed legislation designed to bolster democratic engagement by requiring eligible Washington voters to not only register to vote but to turn in a ballot for every primary and general election. Nothing…

The Archdiocese of Washington is challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act. The 2023 legislation took effect in October and lifts the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse, much akin to legislation approved in numerous…

Seattle is in King County, Washington, where Joe Biden got 75 percent of the vote in the 2020 election. King County had more than 1,000 drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2023. These two facts are almost certainly related, but which…

A persecuted Catholic is running for Congress. Mark Houck announced last week that he will be running to represent Pennsylvania’s first congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Houck states on his campaign website, “I will focus on restoring…

The lack of accountability that follows softer legislation on shoplifting and vandalism will logically invite more shoplifting and vandalism. Washington doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo. According to a new report, Seattle police will stop enforcing property crimes that…

Three politicians recently campaigned in Los Angeles for the presidency … of Guatemala. The local newspaper’s account expressed shock not at the candidates who trolled for votes 2,500 miles away from Guatemala City but at the ones who stayed home….

Brian Tingley, a 20-year veteran of marriage and family counseling, in March asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his challenge to a discriminatory law passed in his state of Washington in 2018. In close to half the states in…

Congressman John LeBoutillier once described Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill as “just like the federal budget — fat, bloated, and out of control.” Physiognomy puts the science in pseudoscience when applied to politicians but little else. Our representatives come…

My friends outside of work often ask me about the topics that I cover. People have a real interest in the goings-on in the California Legislature, criminal justice matters, and — at least out west — the reasons for our…

Of the five states holding primaries on Tuesday, the most interesting may be Washington because its unique open primary system, in which all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, may give direct insight into the midterm election. …