Yet another major conservative voice is touting Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as a viable choice as eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate. A few weeks ago, Townhall magazine listed the four-term Spokane Congresswoman as one of a dozen or so on the GOP screening committee’s short list. This month, The American Spectator...
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Rob McKenna, the presumptive Republican nominee for Washington state governor this fall, officially filed his paperwork for the office on Thursday afternoon. The two-term state attorney general’s filing was announced a few minutes before 5 p.m. just one day ahead of the deadline. His likely Democratic opponent, former U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, filed his...
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Three days and change into filing week and Rob McKenna is still a no-show. The state attorney general has been campaigning actively for the office for more than a year, but to date, he hasn’t turned in his paperwork with the Secretary of State’s Office. The filing window, which opened on Monday morning, closes...
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Attorney General Rob McKenna, the presumptive Republican front-runner in the race for Washington state governor, was still not officially in the race as of noon Wednesday on the first week to file for state offices. He is expected to do so any day now, however. Former U.S. Rep, Jay Inslee, his likely Democratic opponent,...
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Just because the Thurston County commissioners ultimately made the correct decision doesn’t made it correctly. That’s the message about two dozen property rights advocates delivered on Tuesday with respect to the county’s recently scrapped shooting ordinance. “While I agreed with the commissioners in this decision, process is policy,” said Glen Morgan, property rights director...
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As of noon on Tuesday, 301 candidates had filed for statewide office since the filing period opened a day earlier. The State Secretary of State’s Office has been accepting applications for two weeks, but they become official this week — once elections officials verify the qualifications of prospective candidates. A total of 30 offices...
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The success in North Carolina on Tuesday night of an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriages is seen by advocates of a much narrower measure in Washington as a sign of validation. “It just proves what we’ve been saying all along,” said Joseph Backholm, president of the Family Policy Institute of Washington....
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Opponents of a plan to allow Sound Transit use of the center two lanes on the Interstate 90 Bridge in order to extend light rail from Seattle to Bellevue are planning to take their case back to the state’s highest court. Representatives from the Eastside Transportation Association, including former State Sen. Jim Horn and...
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  A resident of tiny Chattaroy, in Washington’s northeastern corner, is waging a one-man offensive against a school district he believes has employed unethical and possibly illegal methods to pass a hotly contested levy measure. Most recently, Leonard Terzenbach has evidence officials of the Riverside School District registered special needs students and instructed them...
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Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown’s abrupt announcement last week that she won’t seek another term in the Washington State Legislature has Olympia buzzing with two questions – why and who’s next? The Spokane Democrat revealed on Thursday that after 20 years in the Legislature, she intends to retain her part-time teaching position at Gonzaga University...
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