President Obama’s campaign apparatus e-mails almost every day asking for money, but perhaps because I never give him any, he never calls to ask for advice. That’s OK. I have some for him anyway, unsolicited. Don’t pop in and out of Seattle this week like…
President Barack Obama is planning a fund-raising visit to Seattle on Tuesday. Quick in and out on the way to more fund-raising in California. As with previous visits, it's likely to tie up traffic in the Puget Sound during his coming and going to the…
OLYMPIA -- Legal marijuana stores won't be able to sell lollipops, gummy bears or other candies infused with the drug, but will be able to sell properly labelled brownies and cookies, a state agency decided today. The Liquor Control Board approved rules for marijuana-infused food…
How many of these infractions, misdemeanors and felonies have you committed? And yes, Weird Al probably made better use of this tune than Robin Thicke.
Govs. Jay Inslee and Butch Otter signed on to a letter Tuesday urging Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, but the owner of a Palouse company sometimes listed as a local beneficiary of the institution says the United States should let it go out of…
County elections offices around the state will begin mailing out ballots Wednesday to the state's voters. Spokane County elections officials say they will be mailing out more than 275,000 in two batches, Wednesday and Thursday. If you are registered to vote and don't get a…
If you're tired of watching two people trying to shout over each other on cable news, this CNBC clip shows what happens when you don't fight fire with fire. When you fight fire with water, and keep it up, water wins.
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee is returning from the Farnborough Air Show in Great Britain, but it would seem none of the British reserve rubbed off on him during his short stay there. Asked during a telephonic press conference this morning how the air show…
Firearms may be a great accessory for campaign ads, but apparently not if you are a Democrat running for Congress in Central Washington's 4th Congressional District. Estakio Beltran, one of two Democrats and 12 candidates overall running for the open seat in the 4th, announced…
OLYMPIA — Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. will begin testing its new airliner in Moses Lake next fall, bringing about 100 jobs to that Central Washington community, Gov. Jay Inslee said. . . To read the rest of this item, or to comment, click here to continue…
Over the weekend, we ran the second installment of a new feature called "Spin Control Files," which is an occasional look at some of the people and events that shaped Washington politics over the years. The editors thought it would be nice to add another…
During of quarter century-plus of living in Spokane, I regularly had to explain to friends and relatives elsewhere that it was not a suburb of Seattle and thus did not get rain all the time. Now in Olympia, I battle a new misconception, that being…
Republican Mike McFadden, running for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Al Franken, ignored the old W.C. Fields advice about never working with dogs or kids. He has the players of his junior football team -- or somebody's players, as they look like…
OLYMPIA -- Washington has a record number of voters on its rolls as the Aug. 5 primary approaches. The Secretary of State's office says it has 3,922,537 active registrations, which is more than previous highs before the 2012 and 2013 elections. The number of voters…
OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee proposed new standards for cleaning up Washington’s lakes, rivers and the Puget Sound, immediately drawing criticism from some business and labor groups that they will be too expensive and from some environmentalists that they are too lax. The plan announced…
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee is set to release a proposal to change the state's water quality standards at noon today, and already both sides of the debate are warning that it could be bad, if not downright terrible. The environmental group Earthjustice is saying…
The first legal pot store in Washington opened not in Seattle or Tacoma or Spokan, but in Bellingham this morning at 8 a.m. First in line to buy some legal weed was Cale Holdsworth of Abilene, Kansas, Slog reports. Holdsworth was almost immediately mobbed by…
Three stores in north Spokane are among the 25 applicants who will get the state’s first licenses to sell recreational marijuana, but only one will open Tuesday, the first day such sales will be legal. The state Liquor Control Board this morning released its first…
OLYMPIA – In these dog days of summer, things that would not get a second-look the rest of the year are tested for news viability under much lower July vacation standards in an effort to fill the paper. Any other time, a press release from…
So, you think you’re a good patriot. The flag pin on your lapel says “Made in the USA”. You sing “The Star Spangled Banner” before baseball games without looking at the words on the Jumbotron. You chanted USA during the World Cup even though you…
OLYMPIA -- Initiative entrepreneur Tim Eyman will not have a measure on this fall's ballot. Eyman informed supporters today that he and his associates, Spokanites Mike and Jack Fagan, will not be turning in signatures for Initiative 1325, an effort to force the Legislature into…
If you live in Washington, odds are greater that you have seen a UFO than if you lived in, say, South Dakota. Or even Idaho. That's according to data compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center, which has tracked sitings of unidentified flying objects for…
OLYMPIA -- Supporters of a ballot measure that would reduce class sizes in public schools say they're confident the proposal will be on the November ballot after turning in more than 325,000 signatures this morning. The Secretary of State's office will still have to check…
The United Nations estimated marijuana use around the world, and the United States ranks pretty high. Not as high per capita as Iceland, where about a fourth of the population regularly uses the drug. But Iceland's a small country, so that's only about 55,000 people,…
This actually aired the night before Monday's Supreme Court decision came down, but Oliver's rift on what corporations should have to do if they really want to be considered people may be even more on point now. He'd probably get high fives from the minority…
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