In his final State of the State address to a joint session of the Washington Legislature, Governor Jay Inslee made a passionate plea to safeguard the state’s progressive achievements and protect ...

1. THE WHO-THE-HELL-IS-JAY-INSLEE PROBLEM You, a savvy Inlander reader, know who Jay Inslee is. (The governor of Washington state, it turns out.) But to even begin to compete in a field already ...

Gov. Jay Inslee — and his environmentalist spirit — have been immortalized in an official portrait. Washington’s outgoing Democratic governor on Tuesday afternoon revealed the painting by Seattle ...

Outgoing Gov. Jay Inslee delivered his final State of the State address to both chambers of the Washington Legislature on Tuesday. Though the yearly speech sets a tone for the 103 days of lawmaking, ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt. Over the course of his tenure, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has given us a lot of grist for our editorial mill. His trips to the U.N.

Polls have shown a close race between Washington state gubernatorial candidates Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna. The Ross and Burbank Show called up both candidates to see what they’re doing to try and ...

Gov. Jay Inslee answer questions from the Capitol press corps and other media during the annual Legislative Preview event in Olympia on Jan. 4, 2024. Steve Bloom The Olympian Gov. Jay Inslee on Nov.

Seeking to cover a looming budget shortfall and stave off cuts to state services, Gov. Jay Inslee is throwing his support behind a proposed "wealth tax" on the state's richest residents. The proposal ...

Let’s talk about Clark Richard Elmore. Elmore, from Bellingham, is truly a bad man. He is evil. He admits that back in 1995, he raped and murdered a child. Yet, oddly enough, he has a de-facto ally in ...

The outgoing Washington governor says the resiliency of his state’s cap-and-invest system speaks to the value of state-based climate action. The last act of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public life ...

Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee looks on during a news conference unveiling the Seattle FIFA World Cup 2026 brand and logo on the Observation Deck at The Space Needle on May 18, 2023, in Seattle.