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In an op-ed for the La Conner Weekly News, Rep. Norma Smith touches on several key issues this session, including data privacy, supplemental operating, capital and transportation budgets, homelessness, and $30...
Every day, we hear about the numerous deficiencies of the political process. They can be more than disheartening when creating obstacles to problem solving. However, one largely untold story...
For many of us on Whidbey Island, Saturdays regularly include a trip to the transfer station, where we take our garbage and sorted recyclables. It’s often a time to say ‘hello’...
Rep. Norma Smith says state and local government must work together to care for those struggling with behavioral and mental health challenges.
Rep. Norma Smith says Washington state lawmakers are standing with the people on privacy and data protection.
In Washington, our regulatory business climate threatens growth and is a key competitive disadvantage as we compete to promote job creation across all sectors.
We know small businesses are the engine of our economy – in Washington state, and nationally. When state government works in partnership with employers to cut onerous regulations, that’s when we...
Right now, political leadership in Washington must say what employers need to hear: We appreciate you and we want you to remain in our state providing the much-needed, good-paying jobs that...
Washington state is slipping in its competitiveness and ability to retain and recruit companies - in aerospace and other industry sectors.
I am very concerned with problems I’ve seen with Washington State Ferries since taking office in January 2008. Money was appropriated in 2003 to build four, 144-car ferries, but six years...
