Labor Day weekend is often the point when campaigns kick into high gear with television commercials, and seveal initiative campaigns did so this year.Among them was a television spot in favor of Initiative 1098, which would make some significant changes in state tax law. That…
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Chris Gregoire said this afternoon she will not commute the sentence of Cal Brown for the torture, rape and murder of Holly Washa.Brown, who confessed to the murder, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994, and has lost subsequent appeals to…
The following is a corrected version of an earlier post.Noticeably absent from the ceremony on Tuesday that celebrated the start of construction of a portion of the North Spokane Corridor were any elected Republican officials.It was Spokane Mayor Mary Verner who served as master of…
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