Big business has spent a jaw dropping $410,000 in independent expenditures to defend Rep. Amy Walen (D-Kirkland) against progressive challenger Jessica Forsythe. That’s on top of hundreds of corporate donations padding the stunning $395,000 her campaign has raised itself. Walen earned big business’s loyalty as one of the handful of Democrats to vote against the Millionaires Tax last session, arguably against the will of her constituents who broadly support taxing the rich to

Ferry service has returned mostly to normal after 23 ferry engine room workers called out sick, shutting down 13 out of 18 vessels on Monday. While there’s no official confirmation workers coordinated these absences to flex their collective power to their bosses, Washington State ferries appeared to try and squash sympathies for the union ferry workers by publishing the tippy top of their highest paid worker’s possible salary if they were constantly overworked: $350,000. This

The AI industry is spending big money this midterm election to fill congress with as many corporate shills as possible and two of them are here in Washington State. The industry’s best-funded super PAC, Leading The Future, ponied up $288,000 to help re-elect Rep. Marilyn Strickland and a whopping $788,000 to buy the open seat in Central Washington for Republican candidate Amanda McKinney. And corporations don’t throw that kind of cash around without expecting something in re