Sen. Lisa Brown pauses while packing her office to take a phone call. OLYMPIA – As she packed up the memorabilia from 20 years in the Legislature, Lisa Brown was preparing Thursday to take charge of a dream for Spokane that was even older. In…
Sen. Lisa Brown will move from the leading Senate Democrats to leading the WSU-Spokane campus. Brown was named chancellor of WSU-Spokane this afternoon by President Elson Floyd. The Spokane Democrat did not seek re-election this year and retires in December after 20 years in the…
Mary Alice Heuschel, the Renton Schools superintendent, will be Governor-elect Jay Inslee's chief of staff. Inslee made the announcement this morning that Heuschel, who was among a trio picked to head his transition team, will go with him to Olympia next year. Education will be…
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