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• Spin Control: Marmots help legislators lighten up

  March 29, 2009 in City on Page B3 Things are bleak if one is around government. The economy is bad, revenues are down, deficits loom. But not everything is about chopping programs and slashing budgets. Take the Legislature …

• Wash. State Patrol says labor e-mail not criminal

  March 17, 2009 in City, Region The State Patrol says an e-mail tying Democratic campaign money to a the passage of a union-friendly bill was not criminal.

• Sen. Brown considers run for governor

  January 22, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V1 OLYMPIA – The state’s last governor to make the jump from Eastern Washington to governor’s mansion was a Democrat who, in tough times, argued for public spending to help stabilize …