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Articles from the January 19, 2024 edition


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  • End to daylight saving time in the sights of "Ditch the Switch" advocates

    Aspen Anderson|Updated Jan 30, 2024

    Washingtonians may lose their cherished ultra-late-night sunsets in the summer if Washington state opts for permanent Pacific Standard Time (PST). "If Congress had acted, we would not be here with this bill," remarked Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley. The U.S. Senate, in March 2022, passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 that would have made daylight saving permanent, but it has not been approved by the House. The measure now under consideration in the Legislation would...

  • Students push bill to bring overdose-reversal drug to all schools

    Aspen Anderson|Updated Jan 22, 2024

    Concerned about drug overdoses among teenagers, Lake Washington High School seniors Theodore Meek, Joanna Lymberis, Olivia Milstein, Sophia Lymberis and Reilly Jones transformed a school assignment into a bill aimed at making opioid-reversal medication available in high schools. "The first conversation we had was, we're gonna get this passed," Sofia Lymberis said. Narcan, the commercial name for naloxone, is already available in Washington schools with student populations of...