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Published May 1st, 2012 - 9:40PM
Remember that firefighter who wanted you to privatize liquor?
Published April 30th, 2012 - 3:01AM
As budget cuts and reorganization shrank a division of the state Department of Commerce by nearly two-thirds, the agency moved in 2010 to keep two directors seen as having valuable skills, experience, and in one case, proven savvy in reeling in revenue.
Published April 29th, 2012 - 12:05AM
A curious thing happened when former Gov. Gary Locke signed an executive order in 2005 freezing the purchase of four-wheel drive sport-utility vehicles: he state started buying more.
Published April 28th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Numbers. So many numbers.
Published April 27th, 2012 - 12:05AM
A regional group of elected officials has backed off a plan to bring heightened attention to congestion relief near Joint Base Lewis-McChord by downplaying another South Sound road project.
Published April 26th, 2012 - 6:13PM
Austin German Ellison’s life as an adult had barely begun when he died in a work-related accident.
Published April 25th, 2012 - 12:05AM
A statewide earthquake drill will be held at 9:45 a.m. today as part of Washington’s disaster preparedness month.
Published April 24th, 2012 - 3:41PM
The state Liquor Control Board will close 14 of its stores beginning Thursday. The list of closures includes stores in Tacoma, Lacey and Federal Way.
Published April 24th, 2012 - 2:19PM
The state’s 78-year grip on the hard-liquor business has loosened a bit more. The Liquor Control Board announced the winners Monday of its online auction of 167 stores. The highest single bid, at $750,100, was for a store in Tacoma.
Published April 24th, 2012 - 3:23AM
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed more than $1 billion in public works spending into law Monday, including money to refurbish state-run living quarters for the developmentally disabled that the governor had planned to veto until the last minute.
Published April 24th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed more than $1 billion in public works spending into law Monday, including money to refurbish state-run living quarters for the developmentally disabled that the governor had planned to veto until the last minute.
Published April 23rd, 2012 - 2:57PM
At Tacoma Community College, Gov. Chris Gregoire is getting ready to to sign the state capital-construction budget that contains more than $1 billion for one-time projects and will veto a handful of pieces. This morning, $3 million worth of renovations to Rainier School was on that target list.
Published April 23rd, 2012 - 1:49PM
Gov. Chris Gregoire will be at Tacoma Community College this afternoon to sign the supplemental capital spending budget, which allocates $1 billion to construction projects statewide, including $40 million to TCC’s health careers center.
Published April 22nd, 2012 - 7:06AM
Responding to an appeal from their archbishop, most Catholic parishes in Western Washington are collecting signatures after Masses this weekend and over the next few months for Referendum 74, the ballot measure seeking to overturn the state’s new same-sex marriage law.
Published April 21st, 2012 - 4:43PM
With the dawn of each new baseball season, talk turns to unwritten rules.
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