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Eye On Olympia archive for Feb. 25, 2004

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 2004

And McCaslin was there...

A hundred and fifty years ago Friday, about two dozen members of the territorial legislature convened for their first session. They met on the second floor of a general store near Olympia's waterfront, and lawmakers arrived on foot, by horseback, and in canoes. Their average…

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Good news for WSU...

"We're really just paralyzed in Spokane until we move ahead with that. The classrooms are full." WSU's Larry Ganders, on why the state should pony up $31 million for a new Riverpoint Academic Center at WSU's Riverpoint campus in downtown Spokane. House and Senate budget…

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