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Senator
Darlene Fairley
32nd
District Lake Forest Park
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March 1, 2006
Senate passes consumer protection bills
OLYMPIA – Interest rates may be down, but interest in
mortgages is on the rise. The region’s hot housing market has led to
increasing concern about mortgage brokers and lending practices.
That prompted the Senate to unanimously pass proposals intended to
bolster consumer confidence.
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Feb. 28, 2006
 1:04
wrap with Sen. Darlene Fairley of Lake Forest Park on Ethel's
bill.
Lead: State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said Ethel
Adams’ much-publicized struggle with her insurance company prompted
more calls to his office than any other issue during his tenure.
Lawmakers want to make her struggle a thing of the past. Jeff
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Feb. 13, 2006
Senate authorizes parking privileges for blind
passengers
OLYMPIA – Blindness would be added to the list of
disabilities that qualify for special parking privileges under a
measure approved today by the Senate.
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Feb. 13, 2006
Fairley’s pro-business legislation approved by
Senate
OLYMPIA – Washington’s small businesses got a boost today
as the Senate unanimously approved legislation to encourage
entrepreneurship. Senate Bill 6168 promotes economic
development by eliminating obsolete laws and streamlining current
rules and regulations.
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Feb 8, 2006
Job security for state employees who volunteer
OLYMPIA – State employees who serve our country by joining
the Peace Corps, or other humanitarian program, shouldn’t be
penalized by loss of employment when they return. That’s why the
Senate today passed Senate Bill 6010, which guarantees that
state workers will have a job waiting for them at home.
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Jan. 27, 2006
2:35
wrap with Sens. Darlene Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park, Marilyn
Rasmussen, D-Eatonville, Rosa Franklin, D-Tacoma, Bill Finkbeiner,
R-Kirkland, and Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, on achieving equal
rights for Washington gays and lesbians.
Lead: History was made in Olympia on Friday, as a nearly
thirty-year effort to add sexual orientation to Washington’s civil
rights law succeeded in the Legislature. (Full
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Jan. 26, 2006
Senate Democrats launch effort to give big
boost to small business
OLYMPIA – When Michael Heppler moved to Eastern Washington
from the Bay Area, he hoped his dog wash business, U-Shampooch,
would prosper. But after three and a half years, he just wasn’t
making it. When he filed for bankruptcy, his wife left him, and he
found himself sleeping on his nephew’s couch.
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Jan. 23, 2006
Economic recovery must reach every corner of
the state, Fairley says
OLYMPIA – With thousands of miles of roadway winding
through forest, prairie and desert, Eastern Washington is a rich and
varied landscape. That was the first thing that struck Sen.
Darlene Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park, on a driving tour two years
ago. more>>>
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