Jim Camden

Current Position: correspondent

Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

Email: jimc@spokesman.com
Phone: (509) 879-7461
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Most Recent Stories

Opinion > Column

Spin Control: Pay attention to voter fraud cases, but remember they’re extremely rare

Sat., Oct. 30, 2021

A voter fraud case evoked memories from days as a cop reporter that pointed to who might have committed the crime.

Opinion > Column

Spin Control: Attempt to recall Inslee faces even longer odds than recall of Newsom

Sun., Sept. 19, 2021

With the national media’s almost unabated attention to the attempted recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week, several alert readers wrote to ask about something closer to home.

Opinion > Column

Spin Control: The refugee struggles from the Afghanistan War are reminiscent of the resettlement after Vietnam

Sun., Sept. 12, 2021

Like many Americans old enough to remember the fall of Saigon, the video of people being evacuated from Kabul brings back memories of another time and another war.

News

9/11 led to permanent boost in airport security

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 10, 2021

The skies went quiet after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

News

Spin Control: Dueling press releases on Texas abortion law ignore reality in Washington state

Sun., Sept. 5, 2021

One of my father’s favorite sayings, and one I try hard to follow, was never to borrow trouble. It’s one that politicians rarely practice when a controversial event is just too tempting to resist.

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Spin Control: Local recounts pass election scrutiny

Sun., Aug. 29, 2021

Some Republican legislators seem to want the American election process to be drawn, quartered and a head stuck on a pike outside the Capitol for a period before the whole body politic is sewn back together and reanimated.

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We the People: The reasoning behind the Vietnam War was not as simple as stopping the spread of communism

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 10, 2021

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens.

Opinion > Column

Spin Control: Is the ballot initiative fever cooling in Washington?

Sat., Aug. 14, 2021

While newspaper reporters must be wary of pronouncing trends – that’s the purview of cable news talking heads who guard their territory jealously – some evidence points to a cooling in Washington’s love affair with the great populist institution known as the ballot initiative measure.

Opinion > Column

Spin Control: Are local income tax bans a red herring in Washington?

Sat., Aug. 7, 2021

The city of Yakima is following the lead of Spokane and giving its voters a say on a city charter amendment banning a local income tax.