The Spokane City Council on Monday likely violated state law by meeting during an anthrax scare which closed City Hall to the public.Firefighters and police were called to City Hall just prior to the council meeting’s scheduled 3:30 p.m. start after an employee found white…
Spokane County commissioners are taking umbrage at something said by a Spokane city official.What? You say we'll have to be a bit more specific, because the county and city are almost always in a state of mutual umbrage?OK, let's start again: Last week's comment by…
Not sure if this says more about Spokane's two major party organizations than anything we could, but, both have plans for gatherings on primary election night.Spokane County Republicans will be at the New Life Assembly of God Church, 10920 East Sprague, starting about 6:30 p.m.Spokane…
Democrats in the other Washington are already trying to lower expectations for the kind of votes incumbent Sen. Patty Murray will pull down on Tuesday, and raise expectations for Republican Dino Rossi.A press release from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are contending that Rossi should…
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and state Rep. Kevin Parker will be making presentations to the Republicans of Spokane County at 6:30 tonight.McMorris Rodgers' plans to explain "Where America is Headed" and Parker will discuss "The Condition of Our State." (Haven't seen advanced copies of…
The Spokane County Elections Office has an on-line tracking system that allows you to know where your ballot is in the processing system.You can reach it by clicking here and filling in the appropriate information.The office also reports that 27.6 percent of the ballots have…
8 p.m. Tuesday.That's the deadline for getting your primary ballot on the way to the elections office in Washington state.And by on the way, that means postmarked, not just dropped in some random mail box at 7:59 p.m. If you are mailing it in today…