Protesters carry a sign to the steps of the state Capitol.OLYMPIA -- About 50 people marched through the Capitol campus this evening to protest FBI "sweeps" of activists in Minneapolis and Chicago.As protests in Olympia go, it wasn't very big. And the signs, like the…
The first -- and so far only -- televised debate to be scheduled in Washington's U.S. Senate race takes place in Spokane next week. Live, from the South Hill, it's Thursday night.(That is to say, it will be at KSPS-TV Channel 7's studio, and it…
OLYMPIA -- Washington state voter's guides will be hitting the mailboxes soon, although when you get yours will depend on where you live.The Washington Secretary of State's office says it will begin mailing voter pamphlets later this week for some counties. That will continue through…
Spin Control went on an unexpected hiatus over the last weekend because I was out of town and the laptop program that allows the VPN to connect up with the Spokane mainframe stopped working on me.Or something like that. It was a computer thing. As…
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