The Spokane City Council on Monday voted 7-0 to appoint Scott Chesney as its new planning director. The former director of planning and development for El Mirage, Ariz. hasn't even worked a day in his new job and he's already been the focus of a…
State Sen. Mike Baumgartner made his "official" announcement today that he's running against Maria Cantwell next year. If that sounds familiar, it's because he was on television Friday evening, and in this newspaper Saturday morning, saying he'd run. That may have seemed pretty official to…
OLYMPIA -- The Secretary of State's office has some new numbers on voter registration among different age brackets, and they show what political experts have known for ages. That young folks register to vote in lower percentages than they represent in the general population, and…
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