Superficial talking points are conversation stoppers, and Democratic leaders are stifling substantive political conversation early on the six initiatives headed to the November ballot. It doesn’t have to be this way if the Legislature follows the state Constitution making initiatives take “precedence over all other measures in the legislature.”
It started out as the story of small business driven to edge of bankruptcy by bureaucratic delay. Daniel Klemme, his business partner Dane Jessen and their company Housing Navigator SPC are carrying $106,135.72 past due from the city of Spokane for their work in helping shut down Camp Hope.
Faced with months and years of rebuilding lives and property after the Oregon Road and Gray fires blew through Spokane County, residents are hoping for a bit of relief.
The man hailed as the savior of free speech, who pledged to create the “most accurate source of information in the world,” has stepped in it again – a big, soft pile of very free, very dumb, very wrong speech.
It was one day of waterless misery, two minutes of fleeting joy and an hour of soggy panic, followed by an exhilarating rescue by the heroes of the city water department and our plumber.
Along with the usual decisions on budgets and local concerns, Washington lawmakers will have a record number of initiatives to ponder this year that cover everything from police pursuit of bad guys to requiring some people to pay more taxes.
Not long ago we were watching a program dealing with some kind of medical thing having to do with people as they age. I don’t even remember what it was about.
Iowa likes to brag their caucuses are first in the nation, but here’s a little secret: This year Washington Republicans beat Iowa to the caucus room by two days.
