A former Spokane mayor and a top Senate staffer are among applicants for Northwest jobs in the Obama administration. Dennis Hession has applied to be the top administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10, which covers Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska and has headquarters…
Sen. Patty Murray will be asking questions of Air Force honchos about that pesky tanker replacement contract they have thus far been unable to run to ground.Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norman Schwartz will appear before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee…
Organizing for America, which is sort of the successor to the Barack Obama presidential campaign, will hold a town-hall style meeting Thursday evening at the East Central Community Center. 6 p.m., East Central Community Center, 500 S. Stone St. if you're marking your calendar.OFA likes…
Today has been declared National Fist Bump Day by, well, by people who apparently don't have very much to do.It commemorates the day one year ago when Barack and Michelle Obama knocked knuckles after he locked up the Democratic nomination. Some TV talking heads later…
Here's a quick look at Tuesday, from the folks at TalkingPointsMemo. (Note that Sonia Sotomayor is only about half of the news.)
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