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Tiffany Smiley speaks to a crowd as primary election results come in on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Issaquah. At the time, Smiley was the Republican challenger of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray.

This is an AI generated image using ChatGPT. Organizers with Green Phoenix Collaborative feed their conversations about the project into ChatGPT and the AI program conjured up this image.

Tabletop game dice, commonly used in Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. With a donation from Wizards of the Coast, Washington's Secretary of State's Office is sending 75 free D&D kits to libraries across the state, along with the potential for game-playing grants.

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth performs in 2008. Gordon is among the acts headlining Bumbershoot 2024 in Seattle, along with Pavement, Cyprus Hill, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett, and more.

Washington state has joined the Department of Justice in a lawsuit alleging Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment have a monopoly on event sales in the United States. They seek to split the companies in two, and water down their influence.

Dan Bylsma in October 2018 as assistant coach of the Detroit Red Wings. The Seattle Kraken announced it hired Bylsma as its new head coach on May 27, 2024.

The number of out-of-state women coming to Washington for abortions went up after 2022, when national protections for abortion care ended, according to a new assessment from University of Washington Medicine.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event in Seattle on the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Washington state lawmakers voted to ban styrofoam (polystyrene foam) in 2021. The ban came in two phases that kicked in June 2023 and June 2024.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in October 2022 at an announcement for new electric school buses coming to Washington state communities. Funding for the new buses was provided by the Clean School Bus Program that is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.