OLYMPIA -- Washington would go from having the second fewest liquor stores per capita to the fifth fewest if voters approver a ballot measure this fall, a new study concludes. Initiative 1183 would likely result in a four-fold increase in the number of retail liquor…
Below is Mayor Mary Verner's full response to the statement released earlier in the day by her opponent in the November election, David Condon, followed by Condon's statement. Condon offered harsh criticism of Verner's handling of the Otto Zehm matter. Verner's response was delivered by…
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's take on polls...with a slight problem on the spelling.
OLYMPIA – Summer is a time of lists. Not just the lists for what do we need to take on vacation or what do we need for the picnic, but lists to fill up newspapers on slow newsdays. Of which there have been many this…
Those wondering when the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- a.k.a. the Supercommittee -- will get up and running need wonder no more. A press release from Sen. Patty Murray and her Supercommittee Co-chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling announced the panel will have its "organizational…
Sometimes it's funny when comedians announce they're running for political office. Sometimes it's not. Roseanne Barr recently announced she's running for president next year. Maybe she's tired of life on the farm. But she joins a long line of comedians who have campaigned for office,…
An independent conservative group, which apparently prefers Michele Bachman over Rick Perry as the Republican presidential nominee, has released a new video. Perry, not surprisingly, has denounced it as "blatantly false." Most notable thing about this ad: The narrator has a great Texas twang. (So…
OLYMPIA -- It's a win some, lose some day for Attorney General Rob McKenna and his authority to join or not join various types of legal actions. As noted elsewhere on the newspaper's website, the State Supreme Court ruled that it won't order McKenna out…
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