This may not be a date that ranks with Dec. 7, 1941 or Sept. 11, 2001, but some people might remember where they were when President Nixon announced he was resigning. Bonus: Here's how The Spokesman-Review reported it the next morning. Note that the only…
As colleague Mike Prager reports in today's paper, Spokane County Commissioner Al French thinks he'll improve his vote totals in the fall as the election moves from his District 3 to the entire county. French has a point that District 3 trends more Democratic than…
Yesterday, at a press conference to release his 2015 budget proposal, Spokane Mayor David Condon stood in front of a Hillyard warehouse that will soon be home to the city's second police precinct. The idea is, by decentralizing the police force into a precinct model,…
Congress may be unpopular, but in Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District, five-term incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers was not with voters casting ballots in Tuesday’s primary. McMorris Rodgers, a member of the GOP leadership in the House, finished the evening with more than half the…
To win a second term in the state House of Representatives, Democrat Marcus Riccelli will have to go another round with the person he beat two years ago, Republican Tim Benn. Riccelli finished first, with about 58 percent of the vote, and Benn was comfortably…
Democrat Mary Lou Johnson has a 62-vote lead over incumbent Republican Commissioner Al French in tonight's 3rd Commissioner District primary. But the two of them are significantly ahead of Bonnie Mager, a former commissioner running as an independent. Johnson and French each have about 36…
Bob McCaslin and Diana Wilhite may have ended the legislative career of Leonard Christian tonight. In a three-way Republican race, McCaslin, a teacher, and Wilhite, the former Spokane Valley mayor, were running comfortably ahead of Christian, who was appointed by Spokane County commissioners to fill…
Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will face Democrat Joe Pakootas in the general election as she tries to win her sixth term in Congress. In early returns, McMorris Rodgers has about half the votes currently being tallied, while Pakootas has slightly less than a third,…
Eltopia farmer and former NFL player Clint Didier takes a commanding lead in the 12-way primary in Central Washington's 4th Congressional District. Second is former state Ag Director and fellow Republican Dan Newhouse. If current trend holds, Democrats will be SOL in this district's general
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is way ahead -- more than 56 percent of the votes -- in the early returns in the 5th Congressional District primary. Democrat Joe Pakootas is comfortably in second with 24 percent. This in votes from Asotin, Pend Oreille, Ferry and…
Here at Spin Control we keep hitting refresh on the web pages that will give us election results and noticed a funny thing on the Secretary of State's page for congressional races. It says it was last update and midnight on 1/1/1880, which is a…
A second police precinct, a steady stream of newly trained cops, and a race to the deadline for a cleaner Spokane River dominates Mayor David Condon’s 2015 budget proposal, which he released earlier today. The $585 million budget plan is in many ways a continuation…
The deadline for getting a primary ballot in is 8 p.m. tonight. If your ballot is still sitting on your counter or coffee table, you might want to consider marking it, putting it in the envelope and taking it to a drop box, because it…
So you found that ballot on the counter and had one of those "Oops" moments. As in "Oops, I meant to figure out who deserves my vote in that legislative/county/congressional race. But I forgot." Not too late. One of the advantages of all mail voting…
If you still have your primary ballot somewhere around the house, well you're pretty much like most people in Washington. Less than a fourth of all ballots in Spokane County had been returned as of Monday morning, and elections officials' optimistic scenario has a turnout…
If some Congressional Republicans hadn’t come up with the twin ideas of impeaching and suing President Obama, Democrats might’ve have invented it as a way wring money out of suckers on their e-mail lists. For more than a week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whose…
Washington's two senators helped sponsor a bipartisan bill Thursday that would keep a major export program vital to the state from going out of business. But Congress, which starts a five-week recess this weekend, will have to use parliamentary shortcuts to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank…
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee joined counterparts from Oregon and California today in asking the federal government to ban any new oil and gas drilling off their coasts. In a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, the three governors said they were strongly opposed to…
OLYMPIA -- The Attorney General's office wants to get involved in a pair of lawsuits between pot businesses and cities that have banned them in an effort to "protect the will of the voters" who legalized the drug in 2012. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said…
For those who haven't had enough of Ted Nugent responding to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's cancellation of his show scheduled for the casino in early August, we offer this link. He wrote a long guest column as an exclusive for WND in which he refers…
Spokane police and fire departments will be getting $26 million worth of new cars, trucks and equipment, Mayor David Condon said this morning in front of Fire Station No. 4 in Browne's Addition. The money will come partly from raising property taxes by 1 percent…
OLYMPIA -- Former Gov. Chris Gregoire will be going to Harvard University in a program designed to inspire undergraduates to seek jobs in government and public service. Gregoire will be one of six resident fellows at the John F. Kennedy School of Government for the…
Only two people actually sat at today's protest against Spokane's sit-lie ordinance, though one was in a wheelchair. The only other two protesters stood outside downtown's Spokane Regional Business Center to talk about why they believed the law targets the homeless. The law in question,…
Spokane-native Chud Wendle has joined Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' local office as district director, the congresswoman announced this week. "I was intrigued from day one, by the challenges and opportunities this job would present," Wendle said. A member of the Wendle family that owns several…
A suggestion by an NRA spokesman that Jews should oppose gun control because of what happened in Nazi Germany has added new ammunition to the debate over two competing measures on the November ballot. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and others on Tuesday called…
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