Dear Friends and Neighbors, This week began with the legislature honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Both the House and Senate chambers offered floor resolutions remembers Dr. King’s legacy. I spoke in strong support of the resolution and that we are stronger when we work together. Click here to...

Dear Friends and Neighbors, As we begin a new year, I want to thank you so much for the honor and privilege of serving you in the legislature.  While the 2021 legislative session is unlike any other, your participation in it is more important than ever to ensure that the...

Special in The Newport Minor 2020 is already a year for the history books. While the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus have been front and center worldwide, Americans are also in the middle of partaking in our once-in-a-decade constitutional duty: the 2020 Census. The United States Constitution mandates...

By  Shelly Short Special to The Miner COVID-19 has challenged each and every one of us at every level. From businesses, to families and workers, no one has escaped the devastating effects of this pandemic. First and foremost, the coronavirus has taken the lives of too many Washingtonians. We grieve...

Short calls for budget action

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Greetings! With the end of the 2020 legislative session less than two weeks away, I want to update you on what’s been happening in Olympia. It’s raining money… again As a fiscal conservative I’m glad that the Senate supplemental operating budget will be funded within current...

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Greetings! There has been a flurry of action in the Legislature recently, as the Senate spent many long hours passing the vast majority of 266 bills (I question if most are even necessary in a free society) over the past two weeks — and another hour...

Majority Democrats in the legislature aren’t listening to voters We have yet to hit the halfway point of the 60-day legislative session for 2020 and already, the Democratic majority in the Senate have approved additional taxes that are completely unnecessary. Do you remember seeing 12 advisory votes on your November...

Sen. Shelly Short and her fellow district legislator,  Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber, R-Republic, visits KOMW to discuss the 2019 legislative session.