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Another state Senate forms inter-party power coalition

Much of the news out of Albany in recent weeks has highlighted the prospect of Democrats crossing the partisan aisle to form a coalition with Republicans to run the state Senate.

Turns out the same kind of thing has been brewing on the other side of the country, in Olympia, Washington. Two states doesn't make for a trend, necessarily, but the parallel is interesting.

From the ‘Olympian’...

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