A few headlines from the latest edition of the state Department of Corrections in-house newsletter:-"Todd Wiggs Receives WSU Criminal Justice Award"-"DOC Wastewater Facilities Earn Perfect Scores from the Department of Ecology" -and "Littlerock Elementary School Kids Send Big Thanks to CCCC"Then comes this item:-"Inmate’s Badly…
Here's the tale of John Malito, a Chattaroy gardener facing deportation to his native Italy after more than five decades as a legal permanent resident here...TACOMA – Johnny Malito spends his days among the white walls and steel doors of an immigration detention center here,…
Yes! Croatia. That's right.So we discover in this latest offering from Strange Maps : a comparison of U.S. states to nations with similar-sized economies. (As the authors note, it can be a misleading statistic, since the map doesn't account for population, and Ecuador has lots…
There's some interesting speculation about candidate pros and cons in a future potential Chris Marr-Cathy McMorris faceoff in the Spokane-area 5th congressional district on the Spokompton blog.
Poo in the Senate, perhaps as a protest...Witnesses said they couldn’t believe that a single culprit could have produced the volume of poo present or that a person could have, well, deposited it the normal way without attracting attention. Several witnesses speculated it had been…
State revenue forecaster Chang Mook Sohn now predicts that an extra $484 million will roll into state coffers over the next two years.The state's economy "continues to outperform the U.S. economy" particularly in construction and real estate, Sohn said. And despite his repeated cautions that…
Open-records activists have set up a free do-it-yourself records-request site through which you can easily request FBI records on yourself or deceased relatives. It's called...www.getgrandpasfbifile.com.(Thx to boingboing for the heads-up.)
For the past couple of weeks, former gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's "Forward Washington Foundation" has been soliciting ideas for improving life in the state. It's on the Web -- see below -- and the group is also hosting a series of idea-soliciting meetings around the…
In an often-terse interview, 9th District Democratic Congressman Adam Smith meets Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.Perhaps Smith -- who is visibly tense in the video -- had seen the unfortunate sausage incident in Colbert's meet-up with fellow Washington Congressman Brian Baird.
Is the subject line on a press release this evening from the state Department of Natural Resources (that would be DNR, BTW.)Also discussed: a revised rule about DFCs, and approval of a new CMER member.Thought you should know.
In what's becoming a day of linking to other people's work (I'm putting together a filing-week database of many, many, many local candidates), here's another good story: The Olympian's Brad Shannon's enterprising preview of a presidential primary-date meeting Monday.As I reported in March, a state…
...is the Tri-City Herald's Chris Mulick's take on Eastern Washington being ignored by campaigning presidential candidates. Mulick takes particular umbrage at "campaign kickoff" non-events for campaigns that the print media's been covering for months:Of course, the candidates themselves play along as if it were fresh…
On Friday, the MacArthur Foundation announced that it plans to pour $10 million into Washington to try to spur effective juvenile justice reforms. Among the group's goals: less reliance on incarcerating kids and more on reforming them.Gov. Chris Gregoire, backed by Supreme Court Justice Bobbe…
Washington State Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge said a few minutes ago that she'll step down from the state Supreme Court at the end of the year to serve as president of the Center for Children and Youth Justice, a non-profit group.The Seattle-based center, founded…