As many of you know, I have long advocated for the creation of a state bank. Called the Washington Investment Trust, this bank would be a depository for Washington’s tax revenues so we could provide banking and lending services to ourselves, rather than going through Wall Street. The bill this year is SB 5464 in the Senate and it was given a public hearing on Feb. 9.

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