Govenor-elect Inslee addresses a legislative preview session. OLYMPIA – The Legislature should consider a wide range of options in a search to increase gun safety and reduce the threat of violence, Governor-elect Jay Inslee said Thursday. “There is no panacea, no one solution,” Inslee said…
OLYMPIA -- If state universities want to raise tuition, the Legislature will have to approve it, a letter from a state attorney to a state senator says. The presidents of the state's six public universities recently told legislative leaders they could freeze tuition for two…
Former Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard will lead downtown Spokane main business group. The Downtown Spokane Partnership announced today that Richard started this week as the organization’s new president. In September, the partnership’s board fired then-president Mike Tedesco, who earned $95,000 a year in the…
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