OLYMPIA – And you thought you were paying too much for your cell phone. The state found ways to save about $1.7 million this biennium by turning in thousands of cell phones that state agencies were using very little or not at all, and switching…
OLYMPIA -- With most legislators still at home, their leaders continued meeting Tuesday with Gov. Chris Gregoire in search of a solution to the state's budget problems They reached no agreements on a key sticking point. Gregoire told them to set those disagreements aside and…
OLYMPIA -- A Thurston County judge rewrote the ballot language for Referendum 74, the ballot measure that will try to overturn the state's new same-sex marriage law if enough signatures are gathered. Details of Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee's decision can be found here. A…
The Occupy movement may have packed up its tents and sleeping bags in most cities for the winter, but this video shows they haven't gone away. Instead, a few of them went into the recording and video studios, to cut a music video about Fannie…
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