OLYMPIA -- Washington business groups, including Greater Spokane Inc., are taking turns dissing Initiative 1125, a proposal that would put restrictions on the way state sets and spends tolls on roads and bridges. The Association of Washington Business recommended a vote against I-1125 last week…
OLYMPIA – Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna won’t withdraw from a multi-state lawsuit against federal health care reform, even though the other states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something McKenna says he doesn’t want. Throw out the entire law. Washington Democrats contend…
One of the first mayoral debates between Mayor Mary Verner and her November election opponent David Condon was at its core a focus on style. Condon promised to take charge of the bureaucracy. “It’s a question of leadership,” he said. “The mayor has to be…
OLYMPIA -- Washington Republicans and Democrats will hold their precinct caucuses on different days -- actually they'll hold them in different months -- in the first step of the presidential nominating process next year. Republicans have scheduled their precinct caucuses for Saturday March 3, which…
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