WA residents rally, join national call for new gun laws to try to prevent mass shootings
With the pain of the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre still searing, people across Washington state joined the national March for Our Lives day of protests, imploring lawmakers to better regulate guns, and to honor those killed by gun violence. In Olympia, hundreds of educators and other supporters of new restrictions marched at the state Capitol, while at a smaller Seattle rally, two moms mourned sons shot to death years ago, and said their indelible grief was rekindled by Uvalde, and the racist slaughter at a Buffalo grocery store 10 days earlier. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Jennifer Buchanan)

‘Little army’ of 31 masked Patriot Front members arrested in Coeur d’Alene near Pride in the Park
Police in Coeur d’Alene arrested 31 masked members of a white nationalist group suspected of conspiring to riot in the city’s downtown on the same day as a scheduled and nearby Pride in the Park event. The arrested men of “Patriot Front” arrived in Coeur d’Alene inside a U-Haul truck that police pulled over for a traffic stop. Only one was from Idaho. The rest came from Washington, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming. Continue reading at The Spokesman-Review. (Colin Mulvany)

Berg: Support for small businesses key to jobs and economy
Our local small businesses are the strong beating heart of every community. So what can we do, together, to help our existing local businesses thrive and bring more new small businesses from idea to reality? This issue is important because half of all workers in Washington state are employed by small businesses, not corporate giants. Continue reading at The Everett Herald.

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