OLYMPIA -- After spending most of Thursday in meetings or "at ease" the Legislature moved with uncharacteristic speed to pass bills as part of a complicated deal and beat a deadline on fixing the estate tax. The Senate passed a change to the Model Toxics…
OLYMPIA – In another sign that Washington will be the national battleground this fall over genetically altered foods, opponents of a ballot measure requiring those products to be labeled raised almost $1 million last month. None of it came from Washington state. . . To…
OLYMPIA -- The Senate remains "at ease" while leader discuss a possible "fix" to a problem with the estate tax. The House passed the bill late this morning, in what was described in that chamber as an agreement over language worked out between the two…
OLYMPIA -- Sen. Mike Baumgartner's annual Flag Day Potluck is the latest casualty of the Legislature's inability to get a budget. The potluck, scheduled for Friday at Comstock Park, was cancelled because Baumgartner can't attend. He's in Olympia with the other legislators (most of them…
OLYMPIA -- The House approved a change in the estate tax to address a loss in court that could cost the state more than $40 million in the coming weeks. On a 53-33 vote, it approved a deal negotiated with Senate Republicans that could keep…
City Council candidate Mark Hamilton says he hasn't lived at his address in the city of Spokane since November and barely lived in the home since September as a result of construction in the home. But Hamilton, a real estate agent and the pastor of…
OLYMPIA -- With the state looking at the prospect of wandering off a fiscal cliff without a budget, Gov. Jay Inslee today canceled a planned trip to the Paris Air Show next week to helpboost Boeing and the rest of the state's aviation industry. The…
WARNING: This video is painful to watch and hear. Its only saving grace is that this exercise helped raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank. Let's hope this duo does not reunite. The political pro of Street Music Week remains -- sorry, mayor and…
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