After a contentious hearing, the state's campaign-finance watchdog has fined a statehouse candidate $300 for failing to file any reports after months of campaigning.Republican Chris Bowen, who's challenging state Rep. Alex Wood, D-Spokane, told investigators that he put the reports in the mail and that's…
Think the tussle over tonight's presidential debate has been strange? Look at what's happening here.Gov. Chris Gregoire and challenger Dino Rossi have for weeks been planning a debate in Vancouver, hosted by The Columbian newspaper. Apparently, the paper and the two campaigns agreed on noon…
Taxes, spending, and leadership in tough times -- click here to see a series of excerpts from Thursday night's gubernatorial debate at the Association of Washington Business' conference in Blaine, Wash.
For those with doubts about whether the state Democratic Party's lawsuit over "GOP" versus "Republican" on the ballot matters, pollster Stuart Elway offers some interesting results from his recent polling. (Elway's appearing on a panel here in Blaine this morning.)Elway's work has shown a strong…
King County Superior Court Judge Richard Eadie will hear arguments Friday at 9 a.m. over halting printing of ballots describing Republican Dino Rossi's party preference as "GOP Party."Saying that a significant number of voters don't realize that GOP and Republican are synonymous, the state Democratic…
And here it is: "Tax increases will be necessary in order to avoid the negative economic effects of deep budget cuts."Those are words that very few politicians in Olympia, and definitely not those in close races, like Gov. Chris Gregoire, are willing to utter a…
From today's paper:Like a lot of moms with a family to feed, Spokane Valley's Lisa Sandefur shops carefully for groceries.She goes to the Dollar Store frequently for canned goods. She buys big bags of store-brand cereals. And she forgoes things like juice in favor of…
In minutes, the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council will predict that general fund revenue will be down $529 million for the remainder of this biennium and the next one.Gov. Chris Gregoire will tell her budget office to find an additional $200 million in savings…
ER, FC.The state's Economic and Revenue Forecast Council will meet later this morning to peer into the crystal ball and forecast the state of the state's treasury over the next two years.Looking at the headlines over the past several days (Wamu? Hello?), it's hard to…
As attention from Wall Street's financial firefight turned to the federal bailout of American International Group Wednesday, Washington insurance commissioner Mike Kreidler said the companies insurance clients shouldn't be sweating things."Many policyholders have expressed concerns in light of the recent news surrounding AIG," Kreidler said…
At the urging of state workers, Gov. Chris Gregoire has agreed to let hundreds of them in nine state agencies switch to four-day work weeks.The move -- which means working four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour days -- is intended to reduce energy use,…
The northeastern Washington legislative faceoff between longtime legislative aide Shelly Short and architect Sue Lani Madsen is looking a lot like a grudge match.Short got slightly more votes in the primary than Madsen: 26.7 percent to 26.4 percent in a five-way, all-Republican primary. Both are…
With only weeks to go before Election Day, one of the deepest-pocketed political players in Washington is in trouble.State regulators on Monday decided that a subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington and another builders' group “committed multiple apparent violations” of the state's election…
Arguing that his lawyers were ineffective and that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, serial killed Robert Lee Yates Jr. on Monday asked Washington's highest court to stay his Sept. 19th execution while he appeals further.He's also asking for a court-appointed attorney to help…
The Humane Society of the United States said this morning that its state director, Inga Gibson, filed a complaint with the state Department of Corrections and Department of Fish and Wildlife over reported mistreatment of pheasants being raised at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.An…
It's not what I said, it's what I meant.That, in essence, was the case made Thursday in the state's highest court by proponents of a ballot measure that would require more paid training for home health-care workers.In what could turn out to be a very…
In an op-ed piece in the Seattle P_I today, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, and House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, take umbrage at the suggestion that state-employee support for Gov. Chris Gregoire is driven by the substantial pay increases that many workers have received…
From the Department of Natural Resources this afternoon:"Subject: BNR Approves Hamma Hamma Balds NAP"Duly noted.
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