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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 11 |
| 1859 | 8 |
| 1860 | 5 |
| 1861 | 9 |
| 1862 | 7 |
| 1863 | 19 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 13 |
| 1877 | 10 |
| 1878 | 8 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1883 | 25 |
| 1884 | 6 |
| 1885 | 15 |
| 1886 | 22 |
| 1887 | 14 |
| 1888 | 12 |
| 1889 | 35 |
| 1890 | 6 |
| 1891 | 60 |
| 1892 | 89 |
| 1893 | 47 |
| 1894 | 49 |
| 1895 | 79 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 2 |
| 1899 | 6 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1903 | 38 |
| 1904 | 16 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 43 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 5 |
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| 1915 | 10 |
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| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
4 stories matching governor
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- Labor’s Olympia Push: A Fight Over What an Injured Worker’s Life Is Worth
As the Washington legislature opened, the State Federation of Labor pressed for higher workmen’s compensation awards, child-labor protections and limits on prison-made goods — while employers organized a lobby to stop them.
- The Great Tax Tug-of-War at the Capitol
As the 1923 state legislature convenes, competing demands for state-funded projects and tax relief pit town against town, leaving lawmakers in a fiscal deadlock.
- The Paved Artery: Washington’s New Horizon
Engineers race to finish the state's first continuous paved highway, sparking dreams of interstate travel.
- A Railroad the Valley Needed—and Another Year of Waiting
Federal regulators ordered a fresh hearing on the Wenatchee Southern, infuriating Central Washington growers who said poor transport was costing them millions.