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A customer waits for her order in the storefront of Johnson Candy Company. The store is decked out in red and pink decorations and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate for Valentine's Day. (Credit: Lauren Gallup / NWPB)

Saying ‘I love you’ with local chocolates

Inside the storefront of Johnson Candy Company, there are hundreds of heart-shaped boxes of chocolates.
Gift-wrapped boxes are stacked up on a table behind display cases. Open boxes show off sweet concoctions, propped up on shelves or set out below hanging red and pink decorations. Cellophane-wrapped goodies sit on top of glass windows displaying squares of chocolate deliciousness.

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Rep. Lisa Parshley, the primary sponsor of House Bill 1622, during a meeting of the House Finance Committee on Feb. 6, 2025.

Washington bills attempt to give public workers power to bargain on AI

There are only so many things employees get to have a say over in their jobs. Which laptops or messaging app your office uses might not be your call.
For a while, decisions on the use of technology in the workplace have been up to management for public workers in Washington state, thanks to a law passed in 2002. But now, some lawmakers want to pass an exemption that would allow public sector employees to bargain on one broad and ever-changing technology — artificial intelligence.

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