Spokane County expects to receive a total of $30,000 by the end of the week that will cover monthly payments through July from racetrack operator Bucky Austin. County officials will meet Monday with Austin and his staff about notices from contractors for past-due bills totaling…
Envision Spokane, the organization promoting a "Community Bill of Rights" for the city, says it will turn in the signatures Wednesday morning for its petitions to put the proposed charter change on the November ballot.The group needs at least 2,795 valid signatures from registered city…
Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered flags on state buildings lowered to half staff Wednesday in honor of 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw of Steilacoom.Bradshaw, 24, died June 25 in Kheyl, Afghanistan, from injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device was detonated.
When they tell you to turn your phone off, or at least put it on vibrate, it may be a good idea to listen...especially if you're listening to the president.
Hot topic Monday was Bernie Madoff getting sentenced. Here's 100 seconds worth from the folks at TalkingPointsMemo.
The operator of the county’s West Plains racetrack owes $20,000 in back payments to the county and more than $1 million to contractors who have been refurbishing the facility, county officials said County Executive Marshall Farnell confirmed Monday that Bucky Austin, the track’s operator, has…
Word came last week from Gov. Chris Gregoire’s office that she is now on Twitter. In truth, she’s been tweeting for a few weeks. But with the revolution in Iran apparently running on social networking media, her office wanted to make sure the governor is…
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The South Carolina governor's travails continue, as some of his e-mails get released. The abbreviated version from TalkingPointsMemo:
The differences between Washington state and South Carolina:One is in the Northwest, the other is in the Southeast.One has mountain ranges that still have snow at the top, the other doesn't.When Gov. Chris Gregoire disappears from sight for a few days, she goes to Iraq…
Want to let the Spokane City Council know how you think the city is doing?Calm down. Keep it clean. They're not asking for you to send them a bouquet of roses or something equally fragrant but diametrically less attractive.The council has developed an on-line survey…
If you have any interest in South Carolina, its politics or its governor, this daily clip from TalkingPointsMemo will be high on your must watch list. Otherwise, it's 100 seconds of another politician who cheats on his wife.
Spokane County commissioners put a planned sewer rate increase on hold Tuesday evening, giving residents another week to offer written comments, and a week beyond that for them to chew on it. They're now talking about voting on the increase at their 2 p.m. meeting…
The clip of Tuesday in review, courtesy of TalkingPointsMemo , is all Obama on Iran.
A group pushing an initiative to change immigration law in Washington state is paying to insert 77,000 petitions in Wednesday's Spokesman-Review. They’ve used a similar tactic to distribute copies of the I-1043 petitions in Yakima, Ellensburg, Republic and the Olympic Penninsula as the July 2…
Spokane County will hold a hearing on its proposed increases in sewer rates, that would boost the average monthly home bill in the county by $5 next year and by $11.50 by 2012.Spin Control could make lots of word plays, using various terms that describe…
Creates a legal pleading Otto Zehm is responsible for the events that led up to his death while in police custody, the City of Spokane said Friday as it asked a federal court Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Zehm’s mother. A 56-page response…
What you missed if you skipped the news this morning (or this evening) on Iraq, courtesy of TalkingPointsMemo.
A city resident took umbrage at the e-mail address of one of the City Council candidates – with the Internet, it seems, there is more umbrage in more places – complaining that the Council District 1 hopeful Mike Fagan’s listing is a derogatory acronym well…
Iranian protesters are using Twitter to organize and report the protests against the election. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Republican congressman, tweeted that he saw a parallel to the GOP's travails last year. That prompted some withering responses.
Not intentionally, of course. But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is being noticed.She showed up on Wednesday night's Daily Show, as Jon Stewart was having fun with the politics of health care.After he pokes fun at Obama's speech to the AMA, Stewart takes on congressional Republicans'…
For the record, Patty Murray's favorite word is "help." Maria Cantwell's is "oil". Cathy McMorris Rodgers' is "students."In the Idaho congressional delegation, Mike Crapo's fave is"energy". Jim Risch's is "guard". Walt Minnick's is "Idaho".That's the conclusion of Capitol Words, a new Web site that combs…
Revolution in the streets meets the Twitter Age, according to TalkingPointsMemo.
Steve Taylor, who has been on the Spokane Valley City Council as long as there has been a city council in the Valley, is calling it quits.Taylor announced Wednesday he's resigning at the end of the month to take a job as city administrator in…
The City of Spokane is considering naming a new stretch of street just east of downtown as Martin Luther King Way. It's the section of what might more cartographically be labelled an extension of Riverside Avenue east of Division, which would be built through the…
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