With the Seahawk-Panthers faceoff looming Sunday, Gov. Christine Gregoire on Thursday bet Washington's bounty against the best, we guess, that North Carolina has to offer.Gregoire's offer: Smoked salmon, potatoes, Yakima Valley cherries, Walla Walla wines and Wenatchee apples.N.C. Gov. Mike Easley's version, according to a…
Among the nearly dozen ballot measures filed this year by Tim Eyman and his ballot measure associates, Spokane's Mike and Jack Fagan, is one that Eyman's calling "The Civil Rights Act." Unlike most of Eyman's measures, this one doesn't target taxes.Initiative 914 would ban racial,…