U.S. Sen. Patty Murray says she's included $11 million in a senate spending bill for a new "Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape" training facility at Fairchild Air Force Base.The SERE training teachers aviators what to do to avoid capture and survive if downed behind enemy…
Ran across an interesting list recently while writing about budget cuts to the state Poison Center, (the logo for which probably makes the state's tourism folks squirm.)The budget-cut changes, by the way, include forking over $30 on your credit card to get advice about a…
So what measures will voters see on the fall ballot?Well, they won't see Initiative 1043, which would have required the state to verify that someone's a citizen or legal immigrant before issuing them a driver's license or most public benefits. It also would have banned…