Shopping for ACA Health Insurance? Here’s What’s New This Year

Art Shotwell 9 minutes read
Consumers may find relief in some key changes made by Congress and the Biden administration, although other issues remain unsettled.

State courts are fielding sky-high numbers of lawsuits ahead of the midterms – including challenges to voting restrictions and to how elections are run

Art Shotwell 7 minutes read
Most of the election-related lawsuits now before state courts focus on fine details of election procedures. This can be a costly, time-consuming process for state courts.

The first televised World Series spurred America’s television boom, 75 years ago

Art Shotwell 7 minutes read
Just five days before the first pitch of the 1947 World Series, a deal was struck to air the Series on television.

Police Blotter, October 14 - 20, 2022

Anacortes Police 7 minutes read
An Anacortes Police officer nabbed a Lake Stevens man in his vehicle as he siphoned gas from another vehicle. He said, “I know I got caught stealing gas.”

How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ is being used to mobilize conservative religious voters

Art Shotwell 7 minutes read
In the midterms, some religious voters may be motivated by the argument that if abortion is funded with tax dollars, it makes them personally complicit in sin.

More Than Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder Sparked a Movement, Police Reform Has Stalled. What Happened?

Art Shotwell 9 minutes read
George Floyd’s caught-on-camera murder prompted massive social justice and police reform protests. But a spike in violent crime shifted the narrative around public safety.