OLYMPIA -- State elections officials say they suspect some of the signatures turned in for Initiative 1098, the proposed state income tax proposal, may be phony.Elections Director Nick Handy said the office suspects 20 petition sheets, with about 350 names, are being investigated. All the…
OLYMPIA – The fight over a proposed power line in the Methow Valley pits Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark against Attorney General Rob McKenna. Goldmark gets a chance later this year to persuade the Supreme Court to order McKenna to continue representing him in an ongoing…