Remember that firefighter who wanted you to privatize liquor?
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.
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.
Numbers. So many numbers.
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.
Austin German Ellison’s life as an adult had barely begun when he died in a work-related accident.
A statewide earthquake drill will be held at 9:45 a.m. today as part of Washington’s disaster preparedness month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With the dawn of each new baseball season, talk turns to unwritten rules.
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