OLYMPIA -- An initiative to turn wholesale and retail liquor sales over to the private sector qualified for the ballot, state elections officials said Wednesday. Initiative 1183, sometimes called the Costco initiative because the discount retailer is among its most ardent supporters, passed a random…
Ballots for the Aug. 16 primary are in the mail, and should be showing up in the boxes of registered voters this week. Spokane County officials said they were sending out some 200,000 to voters around the county. But not every voter will get a…
Pushing people over the cliff to patriotic strains has become the "in" thing for advocacy groups in their commercials. Or maybe the most cliche' thing. First it was the Agenda Project, objecting to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, with a grandmother in a wheelchair being pushed…
This doesn't take a crystal ball or Karnak the Great: The city of Spokane and some of its citizens groups are headed for a heated fight over the current police ombudsman's ordinance. The Center for Justice and others today are urging the city to appeal…
Gary Locke officially trades his commerce secretary hat for one that says "U.S. ambassador to China". The Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment to the post in Beijing. Here's the story on the main webpage.
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