Majority Leader Jim West was sitting in his office with a few reporters Wednesday night when an aide came in and handed him a yellow note.West, a Republican from Spokane, paused in mid-sentence, unfolded the paper and read the note."Oh, they started bombing in Baghdad,"…
Last weekend, while visiting Seattle with her sisters and son, Sen. Lisa Brown lost her purse. All her credit cards, her ID, gone.Except that they weren't. That Saturday, a woman named Dorenia Cater, who's been homeless on the streets of Seattle for five years, found…
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