Ballots to Spokane County voters go into the mail starting today.It's a two-day process to mail out some 255,000 ballots in Spokane County, so ballots to the 3rd Legislative District (central Spokane) and 4th Legislative District (Spokane Valley) are being mailed today, and those to…
The Ferris High School debate team will host a debate Wednesday between incumbent Democratic state Sen. Chris Marr and his Republican opponent, Michael Baumgartner. The two candidates, who are fighting one of the most expensive state Legislative battles this year in Washington, hope to represent…
In a sign of just how much the Obama administration wants Patty Murray to hold onto her Senate seat, Vice President Joe Biden is making a second campaign stop in Washington this month.Biden will attend a rally with Murray in Vancouver next Tuesday at the…
Not to be out-partied by Republicans, local Democrats have scheduled a debate watch party for the live televised face-off between Dino Rossi and Patty Murray.Democrats will be snacking and cheering at one of their favorite hangouts, Toad Hall, not far from the County Courthouse north…
Spokane City Council members on Monday decided to give themselves new taxing authority.The council voted 5-2 to create a “Transportation Benefit District.” The decision means the council will have the ability to enact a vehicle tab tax up to $20. Higher tab taxes would require…
KHQ is reporting that Republican state Senate candidate Michael Baumgarter deleted questions to him from Facebook users during a KHQ Facebook interview last week.Mark Billings, executive assignment producer at KHQ, said the Baumgartner campaign admitted to deleting questions they felt were biased and likely written…
President Obama will return to Washington next week to campaign for Sen. Patty Murray’s re-election. The two will appear at a rally at the University of Washington’s Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Oct. 21.Obama was in Seattle on Aug. 17 to talk about small business assistance…
Saturday Night Live opened this weekend with a shot at Rahm Emmanuel's departure from the Obama Administration last week
If you were planning to get up early to catch a candidate forum between Bonnie Mager and Al French on Tuesday morning, you can sleep in.The Greater Spokane Inc., which was sponsoring the forum at Family Home Care in Liberty Lake, said today that forum…
OLYMPIA- About two out of three voters in Washington will cast ballots in the general election, Secretary of State Sam Reed predicted today.That would be above average for the last four decades, and the most for a mid-term election since 1970. Four years ago, the…
The Republicans of Spokane County don't have the word "party" in their club's name. But they plan to make up for that on Thursday with a party in fact.They'll be hosting a party at the Quality Inn Valley Suites, Argonne at I-90, to watch the…
Getting the state out of the liquor business is such a popular idea that voters have two chances to do it in the Nov. 2 election.Based on their ballot titles, Initiatives 1100 and 1105 may seem close enough that anyone in favor of state-operated liquor…
TACOMA – Despite Friday’s reports of unemployment stuck at 9.6 percent and a net loss of jobs nationwide, Vice President Joe Biden urged voters to stick with Sen. Patty Murray and other Democrats next month.Jobs are returning in the auto industry and other parts of…
TACOMA -- Vice President Joe Biden tried to make the case today that Democrats, not Republicans, represent real change and coax young voters to make another trip to the polls for U.S. Sen. Patty Murray in her close race against Republican Dino Rossi."You turned out…
TACOMA -- Wall Street played "Russian roulette" with the nation's future and shouldn't be allowed to do it again, Sen. Patty Murray told a cheering crowd of about 1,000 here."I vowed on my watch Main Street will never again be left holding the bag by…
TACOMA --Signalling how close Washington'sSenate race is, Gov. Chris Gregoire told a crowd at the University of Washington branch campus that control of Congress is at stake in the election that's just 25 days away.Gregoire took shots at a series of Republican candidates around the…
TACOMA -- Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy, warming up the crowd this morning for Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Patty Murray, hit the themes of the Democratic Party for the mid term election.She drew jeers from the partisan crowd for Sarah Palin, Karl Rove…
TACOMA -- Vice President Joe Biden campaigns with Sen. Patty Murray here this morning on the University of Washington branch campus.The Murray campaign apparently trusts the weather, or the crowd's willingness to stand in the rain. It's outside, and drops are starting to fall.Republican Dino…
OLYMPIA-- Inmates in Washington state prisons don't have a constitutional right to vote in elections, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.Washington doesn't allow felons to vote unless they have their rights restored, and attorneys argued that's discriminatory against minorities, whose percentage of…
Dino Rossi and state Republicans are leveling a charge against Patty Murray that Republicans often use on Democrats, that she’s kowtowing to the union bosses. But they may have picked the wrong backdrop to launch this attack.As recounted today by S-R reporter Chelsea Bannach, the…
For presidential speeches, one would think there'd be scrupulous attention to the small things...like securing the presidential seal on the podium.But apparently, one would not always be correct in that assumption.
The ding dongs Michael Baumgartner will hear this weekend won't be from ringing the doorbells of potential voters.They will be wedding bells.(OK, that was dumbest lede ever, sorry.)Republican Michael Baumgartner will get a break this weekend from the state's costliest legislative race to get married.He…
The second, and likely last, debate between Dino Rossi and Patty Murray is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 17 in Seattle at the KOMO-TV studios.Murray and Rossi will debate the week before in Spokane, at 7 p.m. Oct. 14, in a debate jointly sponsored and…
OLYMPIA -- Washington's $5,000 limit on donations to initiative campaigns in the last three weeks of the election should remain in place for now, a federal appeals court ruled.U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton ruled last month the state's limit on contributions was an unconstitutional infringement…
Protesters carry a sign to the steps of the state Capitol.OLYMPIA -- About 50 people marched through the Capitol campus this evening to protest FBI "sweeps" of activists in Minneapolis and Chicago.As protests in Olympia go, it wasn't very big. And the signs, like the…
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