Curtis King

Guest Opinion: The state can make transportation progress smartly when it has the money and the best practices for the time in hand. Our recent history shows how to do both. By Sen. Curtis King Amid all the finger-pointing and half-truths regarding the Legislature’s alleged failure to pass and fund...

By Sen. Curtis King It’s been suggested that the forecast for Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate agenda became cloudier once the Nov. 4 election results showed our Majority Coalition Caucus will continue to lead the state Senate for the remainder of Inslee’s term. Given how the governor seems willing to gamble...

Sen. Curtis King’s work to protect young people from skin cancer has made him the Washington State Medical Association’s 2014 Legislator of the Year. Dr. Dale Reisner, association president, presented King, R-Yakima, with the honor at the WSMA annual meeting Saturday. Earlier this year King shepherded Senate Bill 6065, which...

Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima and co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, made this statement regarding the tentative agreement reached today between United Grain Corporation in Vancouver and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. “The end of these protracted negotiations is good news for working families across Washington. I’m glad that...

Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, made this statement regarding Gov. Jay Inslee’s recent decision to withdraw the Washington State Patrol security detail that had been escorting state grain inspectors to United Grain Corporation’s export terminal in Vancouver. The move has effectively brought grain exports from the terminal, site of an ongoing...

“On time and on budget” is how I describe the 2014 legislative session that ended March 13 in my latest Olympia Update. Read here about session, my bill Gov. Inslee signed prohibiting minors from using tanning beds and what I’ve been up to since returning home from Olympia.

State transportation leaders will travel by bus to see firsthand key rail-centered projects and attend briefings by state and local officials, following a June 17 joint transportation meeting in Spokane. “We’re going to be touring many small communities whose focus is rail. The goods they move by freight have a...

Family members and friends of people who died from melanoma due to tanning-bed use were among those on each side of the Governor as he signed Senate Bill 6065 yesterday. The measure sponsored by Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, requires users of ultraviolet tanning equipment to be 18 years old or...

The state Department of Transportation today announced that WSDOT assistant secretary, ferries division, David Moseley, will be stepping down as of April 15, 2014. Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, and co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, issued this in response: “I was disappointed to learn that David was stepping down. When...