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Archives Treasure #2: 1990 House’s `Steel Magnolias’

Archives Treasure #2: 1990 House’s `Steel Magnolias’

This 1990 photo shows (left to right) Reps. Mary Margaret Haugen, Joe King (who was House Speaker then), Maria Cantwell and Jennifer Belcher during a growth management meeting. Haugen, Cantwell and Belcher were three of the six “Steel Magnolias” in the House who helped craft the Growth Management Act. (Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives) Movie fans remember the 1989 comedy-drama “Steel Magnolias,” featuring a powerful female cast including Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and…

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Budget crisis update: Senate greenlights aid

Budget crisis update: Senate greenlights aid

Just as Washington was girding for a nasty special legislative session or across-the-board spending cuts by Governor Gregoire, Congress may at long last be riding to the rescue.  The U.S. Senate voted 61-38 in a key test vote Wednesday to jump-start a $26 billion aid package for the financially-strapped states. That  would translate into over a half-billion for Washington state. This would include $320 million in Medicaid matching funds that the Legislature had booked when it wrote the budget last…

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