Tired of hearing negative things about the man he selected to be police chief, Mayor David Condon and his top administrator personally paid to fly four Indiana residents to Spokane to vouch for him. The four, including the former editor of the Indianapolis Star and…
Possible bragging rights for Washington over Idaho: We have more presidential candidates on our ballot than you have. Possible bragging rights for Idaho over Washington: We have fewer presidential candidates hardly anyone's ever heard of on our ballot than you. As colleague Betsy Russell reports…
State Sen. Mike Baumgartner took time off from the campaign trail Monday for the birth of his second child. His wife Eleanor delivered a boy, just before 11 a.m. in Spokane. Roman Otway Leo Baumgartner weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces, the campaign said.…
The Riverside Neighborhood Council hosts a candidate forum starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Downtown Spokane Library. The schedule is set up to give voters a chance to meet candidates before the forum, and to ask them questions during it. Confirmed for the forum,…
OLYMPIA -- After dropping during the first month of private liquor sales, the amount of liquor sold and the taxes the state got for it went up in July. The state Revenue Department said sales were up about 15 percent this July compared with July…
Democrat Jay Inslee's gubernatorial campaign is all aglow today with President Barack Obama's endorsement of their guy. Wait a minute. Hasn't Obama been a fan of Inslee's all along. Didn't he wish him well last spring in marking Inslee's departure from Congress to campaign full-time?…
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will be in the Seattle area later today for two fund-raisers. The Wisconsin Congressman is attending an evening reception, where tickets start at $1,000, followed by a separate dinner, tickets $25,000. Those events aren't open to the public or…
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