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The Seattle Times is Washington state's largest daily newspaper, based in Seattle and covering regional news, politics, business and courts.
Washington Rep. Cindy Ryu backs taxing households with incomes as low as $250,000, a quarter of the $1 million line Gov. Ferguson vowed to protect. Conservative opponents call her remark smoking-gun evidence ahead of the Nov. 3 repeal vote.
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Washington voters decide Nov. 3 whether Initiative 645 repeals the 9.9% tax on household income above $1 million that starts in 2028. If voters keep the tax, it still faces a court challenge built on a 1933 ruling against an earlier income tax.
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The two papers say their paywalls were bypassed methodically, which puts the terms of access at issue in the US and touches a commitment OpenAI already signed in Europe. Microsoft went after the damages theories the same day.
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Three unions supplied about $6 million of the $7.8 million raised to defend Washington's 9.9% levy on household income above $1 million, six times what the repeal campaign has, for revenue the state starts billing in 2029.
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The coalition suing OpenAI and Microsoft passed 550 publishers this week, and the cost of training data will be settled either by Judge Sidney Stein's fair-use ruling or by private deals struck before it lands.
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A Thurston County judge found the state's public investment impact disclosure neutral and cleared it for the I-645 ballot. Whether its numbers are right never got a hearing.
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