OLYMPIA -- Barack Obama makes jokes about people who question his birth certificate, and his campaign even is selling a coffee mug with the presidential face on one side and a reproduction of the certificate on the other. Mitt Romney tried to make a joke…
Powered by Tableau Washington spent more than $200 million on enforcing and prosecuting marijuana laws and incarcerating the folks that violated them, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington estimates. The organization released an interactive map today of what it estimates each county spent on…
Spokane County Raceway has an oval track, on which people drive very fast in circles, record mileage and wind up where they started. Which seems a pretty apt metaphor for the raceway since the county bought the property in 2008. The original operator, Bucky Austin,…
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