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Race for state treasurer could be higher profile this year

UPDATED: Sun., Oct. 25, 2020

The contest for the job of jsmanaging billions of dollars that come into and go out of state coffers hinges in part on a comparison of résumés.

Opinion >  Column

Spin Control: Biden campaign’s quest for cash seems relentless

Sun., Sept. 6, 2020

I have become seriously worried about Joe Biden’s presidential campaign because it seems to be so desperate for money that it keeps sending emails asking for money, even though I’ve never given any political candidate a dime.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

The day after Portland protester is shot by police, neighbors try to pick up the pieces

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 4, 2020

Neighbors recalled Friday morning the reported exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, who was suspected of killing a 39-year-old supporter of a right-wing group at a protest in Portland, Oregon.

News >  WA Government

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson files suit against Juul, says e-cig maker markets to kids

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 2, 2020

The nation's largest producer of e-cigarettes has illegally targeted kids, the state claims in a major consumer protection lawsuit filed Wednesday.

News >  WA Government

Washington’s voter-approved semiautomatic rifle restrictions constitutional, judge rules

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 1, 2020

A law restricting the sale of semiautomatic rifles approved by voters in 2018 is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Opinion >  Column

Spin Control: Some words of comfort for voters worried about casting a ballot

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 3, 2020

Two straight weeks of national political conventions – with the usual avalanche of speeches, videos and campaign ads – may have some Washington voters on edge.

News >  WA Government

Governor candidate Culp named in lawsuit over disputed traffic case

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 26, 2020

Republic Police Chief Loren Culp, the GOP candidate for governor, was named in a federal lawsuit that claims a Montana woman's rights were violated when she was detained and charged after a traffic check in 2018.

News >  WA Government

GOP convention offers traditional roll call with Washington, Idaho bragging about features

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 24, 2020

Shortly after the Republican National Convention started Monday it moved to one of the key features of such a gathering, the roll call of the states to cast delegate votes for the party's nominee.

Opinion >  Column

Breaking into the paper’s Olympia office didn’t take a mastermind

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 3, 2020

Sometime on Thursday night or early Friday morning, some “criminal masterminds” broke into the building on the Capitol Campus with the office for The Spokesman-Review and two other newspapers.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Capitol press offices in Olympia burglarized

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 21, 2020

A building on the Capitol campus that contains offices for reporters was broken into and vandalized late Thursday night or Friday morning.

News >  WA Government

Write-in candidate will run for lieutenant governor

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 20, 2020

Republican to run for lieutenant governor as a write-in candidate.

News >  WA Government

Idaho property manager sued for eviction threats in Washington

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 20, 2020

An Idaho property management firm is being sued by Washington for allegedly threatening to evict tenants for nonpayment of rent despite the state’s emergency orders that put a halt to most evictions during the pandemic.

News >  WA Government

State challenges new rule on moving liquefied natural gas by rail

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 20, 2020

Washington has joined other states in challenging new federal rules that would allow for liquefied natural gas to be transported by rail car.

News >  WA Government

Washington Supreme Court: 5 county commissioner bill is constitutional

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 21, 2020

OLYMPIA – A law that expands the number of county commissioners in Spokane from three to five is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a unanimous decision.

News >  WA Government

Former Sen. Slade Gorton, state political icon, dies at 92

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 19, 2020

Slade Gorton, a former legislator, attorney general, the only person to be elected to both of Washington’s U.S. Senate seats and an icon in state politics for decades, died Wednesday at 92.

News >  WA Government

Legislator who came to United States as refugee presents Washington’s votes to nominate Biden

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 18, 2020

The Democratic National Convention continued its unconventional process for one of the most iconic exercises of the quadrennial event, the roll call of the states in which votes are formally cast for the nominees.

News >  WA Government

Washington sues over postal service changes as USPS backtracks on planned closures in Eastern Washington

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 18, 2020

As Washington and some 20 other states began challenging changes to the U.S. Postal Service in court, the postmaster general announced he was suspending those changes at least until after the election.

News >  WA Government

Inslee gets some time in the first day of Democratic Convention

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 17, 2020

Although Washington Gov. Jay Inslee didn't last long in the presidential race last year, he made appearances at events tied to the first day of the Democratic National Convention, talking about climate change, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and plugging presumptive nominee Joe Biden.

News >  WA Government

Washington Democrats support probe of postal service

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 17, 2020

As Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the U.S. House of Representatives back into session this week to investigate the Postal Service, Washington Democrats in both chambers criticized plans to reorganize the mail system and the state’s attorney general was considering legal action.

Opinion >  Column

Spin Control: State GOP considering a write-in for lieutenant governor

Sun., Aug. 16, 2020

Washington’s top two primary system has left state Republicans with a virtual hole in their campaign lineup which they are reportedly trying to fill.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Padden calls for Senate probe of Airway Heights prison slaying

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 11, 2020

The Senate should investigate the decisions that led the Department of Corrections to place a convicted child molester in the cell with the relative of one of his victims, Sen. Mike Padden said Tuesday.

News >  WA Government

‘She’s a forceful advocate’: Harris pick gets high marks from many Washington Democrats

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 11, 2020

The selection of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee for vice president delighted some, encouraged others and disappointed a few party members Tuesday after presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden made his announcement.

News >  WA Government

Malveaux to head state Women’s Commission

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 10, 2020

The chief executive officer of the Spokane YWCA was named Monday to be the director of Washington Women’s Commission.

News >  Nation/World

Hanford was a midwife to the atomic age

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 12, 2020

See Hanford, 10

News >  WA Government

Loren Culp moves from gun-law dissident to GOP gubernatorial nominee

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 10, 2020

Loren Culp, the Republican challenger for governor who bested other more experienced campaigners in Tuesday’s primary, can mark the starting point of his run as the day after the 2018 election.