Ever feel like the Washington state government is run by a bunch of children? This week it is. The YMCA Youth Legislature is meeting in Olympia under Governor Philip Gardner, a senior at the Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma. Starting Wednesday, the kids will be taking up everything from legalizing pot and requiring higher sanitary standards for makeup samples to teaching standards. The Governor still hasn’t officially called a special session but likely will to pass some of the legislation the big kids in Olympia failed to get through this year.
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