Mapping the vote: Here's how the votes in the 6th District Senate Primary shape up. For a bigger view of those results, or to compare them with a hypothetical matchup from 2012 *, click on the documents below. OLYMPIA – Republicans are in the driver’s…
The recent conduct of police in Ferguson, Mo., has made many call into question the militarization of police departments, notably today by Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate come 2016. But more surprisingly, Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan, easily the most conservative…
Fans of "House of Cards" will probably love "House of Cue Cards." People who haven't seen the former might not get some of the jokes, but Jimmy Fallon makes a surprisingly good Kevin Spacey.
Staff for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said they realized too late their error in the published date for an upcoming Spokane town hall event on a mailer that hit the district last week. The glossy mailer lists the date of the event as Thursday, Aug.…
Dock workers and a major grain company in Vancouver have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, clearing the way for smooth shipments of grain as the wheat harvest gets underway and removing a bone of contention between some legislative Republicans and Gov. Jay…
The Spokane Transit Authority is its own government entity, but it got a good going over at last night's Spokane City Council meeting. Two items passed by the council dealt with public conveyance: a resolution supporting the $5.8 million renovation of the STA Plaza, the…
OLYMPIA -- The Department of Natural Resources has banned outdoor burning on all of the agency's lands, no exceptions, it said this morning. The ban comes after a weekend which saw new wildfires in Ferry and Kittitas counties and the total amount of land with…
The weekend after the primary seems like a good time for a lesson in primary numbers, which is offered by the Poli Sci Department, not the Math Department. Election Math 101 teaches us that the most important number is who has the most votes. But…
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will hold a town hall meeting on Aug. 18 at Spokane's Lincoln Center. Her congressional office said today the session is set for 5 to 6 p.m. at the center, 1316 N. Lincoln St.., and will provide an opportulinty for her…
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…