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Spokane student traveled to D.C. with award-winning painting
Emily Harris, a recent graduate from East Valley High School, traveled with her painting “My Childhood” to Washington, D.C. in mid June. On Wednesday, about 450 Congressional Art Award winners around the country had their pictures taken on the steps of the U.S Capitol. During the trip, she and her family also met with the Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, and visited inside the Capitol. Her artwork will hang in the Cannon Tunnel for one year.
Spin Control: Reality is an innocent victim of ‘The Killing’
I’ll be watching the cable TV drama “The Killing” tonight to find out who killed Rosie Larson, even though it irks me. Not just because the main character, Sarah Linden, could get an Emmy for worst TV mother in a drama, or that it is set in Seattle but was mostly shot in Vancouver, B.C. Our northern neighbor offered more tax deals, so producers must have decided one rainy Northwest city looks like any other.
Delegate picks support Romney
TACOMA – Washington Republicans gave Mitt Romney a boost Saturday, just two days before he’s expected in the state for a fundraising visit. Romney supporters at the state convention captured all the delegates and alternates to the national convention up for election, naming several prominent politicians and longtime party members to those spots.
McMorris Rodgers boosts medical device industry in FDA bill
WASHINGTON – American companies that make medical devices would face fewer restrictions and have a better chance of competing against foreign competitors under a section of a bill passed Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives. Inside the Food and Drug Administration Act, which the House approved 391-2, is a section designed to bring about faster approval of new medical devices.
Local, state groups vie over city pot initiatives
Two groups who favor relaxed enforcement of marijuana laws are battling over similar initiatives they want to put before Spokane voters. Sensible Spokane and Sensible Washington, which are separate organizations, have each filed initiatives with the city of Spokane’s clerk’s office declaring intentions to collect signatures so voters could declare that marijuana laws aimed at adults are the city’s “lowest law enforcement priority.”
Marijuana activist files for Congress
A Spokane man active in efforts to legalize marijuana entered the primary for Eastern Washington’s congressional seat Wednesday. Ian Moody, 32, who said he is a leader of the Sensible Spokane Alliance as well as an original member of the Occupy Spokane protest, filed for the seat currently held by Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Moody listed no party preference. Rich Cowan, former chief executive officer of North by Northwest, filed earlier this week as a Democrat, and McMorris Rodgers has not yet filed her paperwork although she is actively campaigning.
Activist’s referendum targets new city law
Changes to the way citizens can sidestep elected leaders to pass their own laws received the endorsement on Wednesday of Mayor David Condon. But there will be more steps before the new rules become law, if some citizens have their way.
Air Force to rank tanker sites
Fairchild and about 60 other Air Force bases will be scored on criteria such as cost, capacity and environmental concerns to decide which will get the first batch of new air refueling tankers. That means the Air Force won’t limit its search for the first homes for new KC-46As to a base that currently has tankers, a spokeswoman for the secretary of the Air Force said Monday after the criteria were released.
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Cowan opens campaign office
As a political novice running against a member of the congressional leadership, Rich Cowan said he hopes to use what some would consider his weakness against what many would consider Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ strength. “This is the worst Congress ever, and she’s part of the leadership of it,” said Cowan, who opened a campaign headquarters Tuesday in Spokane.