Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs
Your responses to my 2020 legislative priorities survey
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! I’m sending this email update out tonight because starting tomorrow, all legislators will be under election-year restrictions. That means I won’t be able to send you any more email updates until the start of the 2020 session on Jan. 13. However, I will...
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Rep. MacEwen’s end-of-session update: March 22, 2018
Three of my bills received overwhelming support in the House and Senate this year, and were recently signed into law by the governor.
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MacEwen bill authorizing counties to support local housing authorities signed into law
A bill sponsored by Rep. Drew MacEwen to affirm that counties have a legal right to provide support to local housing authorities was signed into law by the governor Tuesday.
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Rep. MacEwen’s Legislative Update: Jan. 30, 2018
Since my last update on Jan. 16, the Legislature was able to pass and send a Hirst water rights bill (Senate Bill 6091) and the 2017-19 capital budget to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
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Rep. Drew MacEwen argues for statewide consistency with water restrictions on KMAS
Rep. Drew MacEwen, R-Union, says the state should implement water supply regulations that are consistent for both urban and rural areas of the state in his appearance on “Daybreak with Jeff Slakey” on iFiberone Newsradio KMAS. MacEwen also describes the proposed statewide sugar tax as an example of government going...
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Rep. Drew MacEwen discusses legislation on KMAS to create a new children and family agency
Rep. Drew MacEwen, R-Union, discusses a legislation that would create a new agency that would help children and families. MacEwen also talks about his time meeting and greeting constituents and gives insight on the budget negotiations.
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Sewage spill reveals double standard in environmental priorities
If hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated stormwater and raw sewage flows into Puget Sound, but politicians and environmental groups don’t make a peep, did it really happen? That’s what we’re left to wonder after the catastrophic failure at King County’s West Point Treatment Plant last month. Due to...
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