Christopher Hurst | The Seattle Times

January 15, 2018 at 12:01 pm

Banning guns in state Senate, House galleries is common sense | Op-Ed

Don’t Senate and House members have a Constitutional right not to be killed by high-power military assault weapons as they work at the state Capitol?

January 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm

Op-ed: More changes to state workers’ compensation system needed

THE State Auditor’s Office has long warned the state Department of Labor & Industries of its inadequate reserves and criticized the system’s method for calculating...

Opinion

December 30, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Federal audit of Seattle Police Department is flawed

In a recent audit, the U.S. Department of Justice criticized the Seattle Police Department for excessive force, among other things. Washington state Rep. Chris Hurst,...

Opinion

January 21, 2011 at 3:41 pm

A new sunshine law to save money for citizens and government agencies

Washington's open-records and open-meetings laws are designed to ensure citizens can keep tabs on government; however, too often citizens have to sue to get documents...

Opinion

September 28, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Washington’s justice system needs more verdict options for criminals with mental illness

Phillip Paul, the Eastern State Hospital patient who escaped at a county fair, raises important questions about the options for treating and punishing mentally ill...

Opinion

January 6, 2008 at 12:00 am

Valley board catches bad “code”

Roughly 450,000 people in South King County who are in Public Hospital District No. 1 were ill-served by the last act of the outgoing board...

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