Another legislative session has come and gone, and some of the wackiest stuff on Washington’s agenda did not come to pass. No state dinosaur. No state of Liberty.
You can understand why our local representatives didn’t prioritize zipper merging. With a shorter session this year, the bigwigs in Olympia focused on more pressing matters, like delaying the long-term care tax and banning high-capacity firearm magazines and, of course, approving a budget.
But would it have been so hard to legislate away one annoying technicality?
Despite what many assume, Washington has never been officially nicknamed “The Evergreen State.” In 1889, Charles Tallmadge Conover coined this title for a booklet promoting the sylvan appeal of Washington and its “metropolis,” Seattle. Conover was in
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