Eye On Olympia archive for Aug. 2007
FRIDAY, AUG. 31, 2007
THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 2007
Thu., Aug. 30, 2007, 2:21 p.m.
CNN airs audio recording of the police officer's interview with Sen. Larry Craig...
On the tape, you can hear Craig and the officer arguing about what occurred.The officer repeatedly says that Craig isn't telling the truth, and says he's "disappointed" with Craig.Craig, sounding nervous and flustered, says he's not gay and that he felt the officer was trying...
Thu., Aug. 30, 2007, 10:25 a.m.
Former state Democratic Party chairwoman dies...
Karen Marchioro, a King County political activist who for a dozen years chaired the state Democratic Party, has died."Her wisdom, cool demeanor and loyalty have been integral parts to both our state party as well as our lives," current party chairman Dwight Pelz said in...
Thu., Aug. 30, 2007, 9:35 a.m.
SurveyUSA poll of ID registered voters: 55 percent say go, 34 percent say stay...
A SurveyUSA poll of 475 Idaho registered voters familiar with the recent news about Sen. Larry Craig's arrest turned up these results on Tuesday:-55 percent said Craig should resign,-34 percent said he should remain in office,-11 percent said they weren't sure.When asked if they approve...
Thu., Aug. 30, 2007, 9:11 a.m.
Craig video on Romney seems to be back...
Someone has re-posted on YouTube what they say is -- and what sounds like -- the video of Craig praising Mitt Romney that was quickly yanked from the video site after Craig's guilty plea was made public.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29, 2007
Wed., Aug. 29, 2007, 3:57 p.m.
Primary voter turnout lower than expected, varied dramatically from one county to the next...
Although Secretary of State Sam Reed predicted 34 percent voter turnout in Washington's new August primary, it now looks like the actual number was about 28 percent. (Some counties still have a small number of ballots left to count.)In a press release summarizing the numbers,...
TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 2007
Tue., Aug. 28, 2007, 9:10 a.m.
Craig arrest report is online...
CNN has obtained a copy of the Minnesota arrest report for U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and posted it online as a pdf file.Click here to read the report.
MONDAY, AUG. 27, 2007
Mon., Aug. 27, 2007, 12:52 p.m.
No, wait, strike that...
Thanks to the search-engine prowess of a California graduate student, it's easy to see whose computers are being used to make changes to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.Locally, here are a few of the more interesting ones:State Sen. Chris Marr's biography:-Someone on the state's Legislative Services...
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22, 2007
Wed., Aug. 22, 2007, 10:50 a.m.
Stapilus' crystal ball suggests Verner has the edge for November...
Ridenbaugh Press' Randy Stapilus, on the Spokane mayoral election:Re: Incumbent Mayor Dennis Hession: Not Mr. Excitement, but steady and solid. And - significantly - one of the downtown professional/business crowd, an attorney comfortable with the community’s power structure. All of that would seem to be...
TUESDAY, AUG. 21, 2007
Tue., Aug. 21, 2007, 5:19 p.m.
Registered counselors again under the microscope...
Four months after state lawmakers balked at a proposal to do away with the professional term "registered counselor," a new state audit is again urging that the credential – held by roughly 18,000 people in Washington -- be eliminated.Proponents of the change say that the...
MONDAY, AUG. 20, 2007
Mon., Aug. 20, 2007, 11:13 a.m.
Olympia lobbyist in part of 7-country CNN documentary on religious fundamentalism...
Starting Thursday night, CNN will begin broadcasting a three-part, six-hour documentary -- "God's Warriors" -- on religious fundamentalism worldwide.As part of that effort, Positive Christian Agenda's lobbyst Danille Turissini was followed for four days by a CNN video crew in Olympia this spring, as well...
THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 2007
Thu., Aug. 16, 2007, 6:48 p.m.
Spokane: Cheapest gas in WA? <i>Really?</i>
Take heart, Spokane and Eastern Washington. When it comes to cheap-gas bragging rights in Washington, you're losing some battles but winning the war.After months of number-crunching, the findings of a new state gas-price study released by Attorney General Rob McKenna Thursday include this startling sentence:Among...
Thu., Aug. 16, 2007, 7:37 a.m.
Remember Step No. 5...
"Hang the fan 8 to 9 feet above the floor so no one is decapitated."-from a short article in the Olympian about how to install a ceiling fan.UPDATE: Alert reader (and blogger) Kris Tefft was reminded of a Mythbusters episode that tested this very threat....
THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 2007
Thu., Aug. 9, 2007, 5 p.m.
Another nail-biter for county election officials...
There's an interesting wrinkle in the timing of the court challenge to I-960: the possibility that the court could toss the measure out but that voters would still vote on it anyway.It all depends on how quickly the court rules.Stay with me on this: -The...
TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 2007
Tue., Aug. 7, 2007, 1:52 p.m.
Dolan and Davenport's Kowalkowski on panel to recommend school finance plan...
There are a couple of local names on Gov. Chris Gregoire's newly named school finance task force.One is Laurie Dolan, a Spokane Public Schools veteran who now works as Gregoire's policy director.The other is jim Kowalkowski, superintendent of the Davenport School District and executive director...
MONDAY, AUG. 6, 2007
Mon., Aug. 6, 2007, 4:38 p.m.
Ninth Circuit: "…vote-swapping is a constitutionally protected activity"
Seven years after one of the closest presidential elections in American history, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that it was OK for swing-state voters who wanted to vote for Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanan to agree to "swap"...
Mon., Aug. 6, 2007, 11:49 a.m.
GOP: No plan B if Rossi doesn't run...
Three months ago at a moderate Republicans conference in Wenatchee, congressman Doc Hastings seemed to sum up the mood of the crowd for the '08 gubernatorial race: "I sure hope you run, Dino."Hope is what the GOP is relying on, according to this story from...
THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 2007
Thu., Aug. 2, 2007, 2:47 p.m.
More hats in the local ring...
In what's shaping up to be a replay of the 2004 race for Spokane County Commissioner, Democrats Bill Burke and Brian Sayrs have filed campaign paperwork to run for the seat now held by Republican Mark Richard, who confirms that he's running for re-election.More on...
Thu., Aug. 2, 2007, 9:21 a.m.
Ousted medical officer runs for board chairman's seat...
Nine months after a long-running public clash ended Dr. Kim Thorburn's tenure as Spokane regional health officer, she's about to run for office against the chairman of the board that terminated her contract.Thorburn has filed candidacy paperwork with the state Public Disclosure Commission, declaring that...
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