Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I think about some of my different schools--small, rural, more urban, increasingly suburban. The solutions might look a…”

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.

In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.

The data on that is rolling in, and it is not promising.