The very conservative "Reagan Wing" of the state GOP won't be setting up its booth at the Republican convention in Yakima this weekend after all.In a statement posted on his website and similar press release, blogger and Reagan Wing president Doug Parris blasts new state…
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked the state Utilities and Transportation Commission to look into whether telephone companies here "have regularly shared consumer telephone records with the National Security Agency without legal authority."The request was prompted by a May 11th article ("NSA has…
Two California firms who allegedly "blanketed" computers at the Seattle School District and elsewhere in 2004 with junk e-mails have agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements in the state's first lawsuit under the federal anti-spam act. A judgement in the case…
Moderate Republicans, who met near Seattle last weekend, say they can offer two critical things – campaign help and electability – to a GOP bruised in both Washingtons."We have a special place in the political spectrum," said Alex Hays, executive director of the Mainstream Republicans…
Seattle Times chief political reporter David Postman, who cut his blogging teeth with real-time dispatches from the Wenatchee election trial that decided the governor's race last year, has a new blog: Postman on Politics.Interestingly, Postman has largely unplugged from the print version of the paper…
Oh, the geoduck, snorkeling in the muck with its long, um, snout. A state icon of sorts. The official mascot of The Evergreen State College. (College fight song: "Go, Geoduck, Go!" Really.)This week, government and company officials from Mexico's Baja Peninsula arrived in Olympia to…
Proponents of the Northwest's first NASCAR race track faced a decidedly lukewarm reception from the Legislature earlier this year. Even with the prospect of Superbowl-sized tourist draw, statehouse budget writers made it clear that they weren't inclined to shell out tens of millions of dollars…
The Seattle Weekly pulls that bizarre story -- and a few more -- from Washington State Patrol disciplinary records.Click here to read the Weekly's story, entitled "Cops in Love."The cadet involved in the romance denied that anything sexual occurred on duty, the Weekly says: "His…
Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, is calling for Attorney General Rob McKenna to investigate whether oil companies selling in Washington are price-gouging.Washingtonians have seen gas prices rise 29 percent in three months, Keiser said, despite what should be minimal transportation, refining and blending costs. After…
Imperium Renewables, the parent company of Seattle Biodiesel, is slated to announce later today that it's inking an agreement with the Port of Grays Harbor to build a 100 million-gallon-a-year biodiesel refinery on port property in the Aberdeen area.According to a company spokesman, the plant…
The Washington State Library has posted copies of an 1880s Spokane newspaper on its growing "Historical Newspapers Online Project" website.Three years of issues of the Spokane Falls Review, a four-page Saturday weekly which debuted in 1883, can be viewed along with other territorial newspapers at…
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