The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Anyone who has the misfortune to be on the national Democratic campaigns' e-mail list can relate to the incessant begging for money, supposedly from folks like President Obama, Vice President…
An initiative that would require smaller classes in Washington's public schools has strong support among voters polled a month before election day. Elway Research says two of three voters surveyed last week said they were either definitely or probably going to vote yes on Initiative…
OLYMPIA -- Support for both gun initiatives on the November ballot is falling, but the proposal to expand background checks to most sales still has majority support, a new Elway Research poll says. Three of five voters polled last week said they would definitely or…
Keeping track of legislative committees can be a chore for the public during the session, because some panels string several topics together and because the House and Senate have come up with different titles for groups with the same purview. Between sessions, even legislators have…
Last week’s debate between U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Democratic challenger Joe Pakootas veered briefly into immigration policy, with both candidates being asked to address the topic in the context of the need for farm labor and secure borders. Pakootas tossed off a line…
OLYMPIA – Monday is a cause for minor celebration in Spokane as one of the few weekdays of the year in which “free parking” is not just a square on the Monopoly board. Columbus Day has fallen in the pantheon of American holidays, so it…
Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart said today that Mayor David Condon’s budget proposal did not have enough votes for approval. Flanked by four other council members at COPS West in West Central, Stuckart said he couldn’t “in good conscience” vote for a budget that…
This pool report from Vice President Joe Biden's stop in Seattle, courtesy of Joel Connelly of the Seattle P-I, just in via smart phone: Vice President Joe Biden riffed from domestic violence to the minimum wage, from CEO salaries to infrastructure needs, as he raised…
Vice President Biden is visiting Renton Technical College. Here's the latest pool report from his visit, courtesy of Jim Brunner of the Seattle Times: Vice President Biden entered a Renton Technical College machine shop shortly after 10:30 a.m., accompanied by U.S. Sens Maria Cantwell and…
Politics can be a messy and sometimes depressing arena, so Spin Control likes to pass along good news whenever possible. Here's the best we've had for a while: Parking is free in Spokane on Monday. You don't have to plug meters. It's one of the…
Vice President Joe Biden makes a stop in Seattle this week for a speech at Renton Technical College the next morning. Biden will be campaigning for Democrats in California on Tuesday and in Oregon for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley on Wednesday. He'll fly to Seattle…
OLYMPIA -- The federal government is offering little help to banking institutions willing to set up accounts for legal marijuana operations, making it difficult to bring them out of an all-cash business that has higher risk of theft and money laundering. Instead, it has set…
Today is the final day Washington residents can register to vote in the November election with the click of a mouse buttons and some key strokes. In other words, it's the final day for online voter registration. It is not the absolute, final, drop-dead deadline,…
Former Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna will headline an Oktoberfest fundraiser in Spokane next month for state Sen. Michael Baumgartner. McKenna lost his bid for the governor's office two years ago but produced perhaps one of the campaign season's most memorable moments…
University of Puget Sound professor Dan Burgard says the academic response to his study of drugs in waste water has been a mix of curiosity and bewilderment. "Everybody thinks, 'Wow, you can do that?'" Burgard said in an interview Wednesday. "Then they say, 'Wait, what…
Spin Control will be a bit less active for two weeks. The political staff in Spokane will be contributing items but primary writer Jim Camden is out of the office. In the meantime, here's an early reminder: You've got until Oct. 6 to sign up…
OLYMPIA – Washington’s projected take on legal marijuana is a shade over $200 million, state economists guesstimated last week. That’s not nothing, as non-economists who don’t mind a double negative will agree. But it clearly won’t be enough to stave off the upcoming legislative fighst…
OLYMPIA -- Slightly less than two out of three Washington voters are likely to cast ballots in the November general election, Secretary of State Kim Wyman estimated today. The 62 percent she's predicting is about twice the turnout of the August primary, but less than…
If ever there was a metaphor for bipartisanship in national politics over the last quarter century, it would be the American elm tree planted 25 years ago this Friday in Riverfront Park. The elm from the White House was planted by a Republican president and…
OLYMPIA — Washington tax coffers could get a $25 million boost by next July and nearly $200 million by mid 2017 from legal marijuana, state economists estimate. But much of that money is spoken for and won't help the general fund. The estimates for taxes…
The youngest segment of American citizens are none too excited about the upcoming mid-term elections, a new survey from Harvard University says. HeadCount, a group concerned about civic engagement, or the lack of it, by that segment -- dubbed Millennials by whoever is tasked with…
If a skywalk staircase comes down and no one's around to see it, does it make a sound? Okay, there were plenty of people to see it slowly get dismantled at the corner of Main Avenue and Howard Street, but we were a little disappointed…
OLYMPIA — A federal judge in Tacoma turned down the latest request from convicted rapist Kevin Coe to be released from McNeill Island, where he is incarcerated as a sexually violent predator. He has exhausted one avenue of appeals, but still faces annual reviews by…
The NFL would lose its not-for-profit status, and millions of dollars, if the Washington Redskins don't change their names under a bill being introduced soon by Sen. Maria Cantwell. The Washington state Democrat joined the National Congress of American Indians in calling for the name…
Another Monday, another Spokane City Council meeting at which Councilman Mike Fagan speaks eloquently on the injustice of domestic violence. Okay, so not every council meeting has Fagan on the dais, detailing the horrors of "Spokane's ugly, dirty little secret," telling attendees and viewers that…
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