Today’s headlines:
- A new Washington law encouraging permanent supportive housing will nix “good neighbor agreements” for Spokane homeless shelters.
- Spokane is home to Washington’s only nonprofit land bank devoted to affordable housing. It’s about to get easier for other municipalities to make their own.
- Gov. Bob Ferguson is set to sign the ‘millionaire’s tax’ today, the state’s only income tax.
- The war in Iran is sending gas pump prices upward—but diesel costs for WA farmers are going even higher.
- Washington AG Nick Brown sues online prediction market platform Kalshi for violating state online gambling ban.
- Spokane sees its biggest turnout yet for the city’s third “No Kings” rally.
Plus, retired professor Sean Cassidy says he thought his life was over when he was diagnosed with cancer about four years ago. But now, he tells NWPB’s Rachel Sun that he couldn’t have been more wrong.
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