Spokane City Council members on Monday decided to give themselves new taxing authority.The council voted 5-2 to create a “Transportation Benefit District.” The decision means the council will have the ability to enact a vehicle tab tax up to $20. Higher tab taxes would require…
KHQ is reporting that Republican state Senate candidate Michael Baumgarter deleted questions to him from Facebook users during a KHQ Facebook interview last week.Mark Billings, executive assignment producer at KHQ, said the Baumgartner campaign admitted to deleting questions they felt were biased and likely written…
President Obama will return to Washington next week to campaign for Sen. Patty Murray’s re-election. The two will appear at a rally at the University of Washington’s Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Oct. 21.Obama was in Seattle on Aug. 17 to talk about small business assistance…
Saturday Night Live opened this weekend with a shot at Rahm Emmanuel's departure from the Obama Administration last week
If you were planning to get up early to catch a candidate forum between Bonnie Mager and Al French on Tuesday morning, you can sleep in.The Greater Spokane Inc., which was sponsoring the forum at Family Home Care in Liberty Lake, said today that forum…
OLYMPIA- About two out of three voters in Washington will cast ballots in the general election, Secretary of State Sam Reed predicted today.That would be above average for the last four decades, and the most for a mid-term election since 1970. Four years ago, the…
The Republicans of Spokane County don't have the word "party" in their club's name. But they plan to make up for that on Thursday with a party in fact.They'll be hosting a party at the Quality Inn Valley Suites, Argonne at I-90, to watch the…
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