OLYMPIA – Banning plastic shopping bags throughout the state would keep them from showing up along roadsides, in landfills and in the bellies of whales in the Puget Sound, the sponsor of a proposed ban said Wednesday. But it would also force people out of…
Arun Raha reads from a list of his Top 10 "Arun-isms". OLYMPIA -- Dr. Arun Raha, the state's chief economist who delivered some the worst financial news in more than a half-century but managed a quip or a laugh to help ease the pain, is…
The ballots are counted in New Hampshire, which means presidential candidates and the nation's political reporters can ignore the state for another three and a half years. But before rushing off to South Carolina to dissect whether this will be the end of the GOP…
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