Five years ago, Michael Kirshenbaum researched the impact of public-land fees on lower-income people for his master's thesis at Western Washington University, reporting that the majority of people who no longer used our parks were low-income families and seniors on a fixed income.
Lawmakers were back in Olympia on Tuesday to resume work on closing a $5.1 billion shortfall in the next two-year budget.
The Legislature ran out of time in the regular 105-day session that ended last week and is now in a special session that could drag on for…