Rob McKenna began his opening statement in Spanish. Jay Inslee talked of “bucking hay” and working to pass a levy to build a local high school. And while Washington’s two gubernatorial candidates mostly continued long-running arguments over jobs, health care and school funding, Tuesday night’s…
Rob McKenna and Jay Inslee go mano-a-mano tonight at 7 p.m. in Yakima in front of the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce convention. It will be the third gubernatorial debate, the second since the primary election, and the first in Yakima that anyone can remember. You…
Bet you didn't know Wednesday is International Walk to School Day. The Spokane Regional Health District says it is, and it's the district's job to keep track of such things. It's an effort to get more parents to tell their kids to use their own…
OLYMPIA -- Washington residents who are would-be voters but aren't registered still have time to sign up and be eligible to cast a ballot for president, governor or any or all of the other offices and measures on the state's long and interesting ballot. But…
This may be the most off-the-wall campaign ad of the 2012 cycle. It's from Republican John Dennis, a long-shot challenger to Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, and features a sheep, some Zombies and, well, just a lot of unusual stuff. Dennis apparently decided to use…
Break out the giant scissors. We're having a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the North Spokane Corridor. Make that another ribbon-cutting ceremony. Today at 11 a.m., the powers that be will be holding a "Celebration of Progress" for the much-discussed roadway, a thoroughfare so deeply ingrained in…
Gubernatorial candidates Rob McKenna and Jay Inslee debate tomorrow evening in Yakima. The debate is being co-sponsored by the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, and is happening during their convention. The other co-sponsor is KCTS-TV, the public television station in Seattle. It will be carried live…
A local GOP group will use billboards, cable TV and newspaper ads in an effort to highlight their differences with Democrats this campaign season. The Republicans of Spokane County -- which is not to be confused with the official Spokane County Republican Party, although it…
A vice presidential candidate is making stops in Spokane tonight and Cheney tomorrow. But it's not Joe Biden or Paul Ryan. Instead, it's Libertarian Party nominee Jim Gray, a former California judge, who shares that party's ticket with former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. Gray…
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