Come March 3rd – the good Lord and Rick Santorum willin’ – Washington state Republicans could be somebody in 2012 presidential politics.
This was not a Tacoma City Council agenda that developers of a new building next door to the downtown Elks Lodge wanted to be a part of.
Democrats who control the Washington Legislature have denied that bills to recognize same-gender marriage have been a distraction.
It probably wouldn’t be fair to say that the University of Washington Tacoma is backpedaling on designs for its portion of the Prairie Line Trail (even though the pun is pretty darned tempting).
After watching a presentation Monday by architects and designers from the international firm Atelier Dreiseitl, I guess I was supposed to echo the oooohs and aaaaahs of University of Washington Tacoma staff.
It was a challenge worthy of the PBS series “History Detectives.”
The snow is gone for now, except perhaps for the parking lot piles that will likely remain until Easter ... of 2013.
Americans for Prosperity Washington has very good lawyers. So good, in fact, that it found nearly every loophole in state campaign disclosure law to allow the conservative group to conduct a stealth attack against 13 Democratic legislators just before the 2010 election.
Newt Gingrich has accomplished something I didn’t think was possible.
Last week’s hearing on House Bill 2251 didn’t take long, a few minutes to explain that it was a simple bill to repeal a law ruled unconstitutional nearly four decades ago.
When the project was put into motion, there were no budget problems in the City of Tacoma. There were no threats of layoffs of police officers and fire fighters. No plans to dissolve four engine companies, to close two fire stations, to reduce service in two others.
Democrats and self-described progressives who don’t like the initiative process don’t know their history.
I guess when you’re more than three years into a period of economic doldrums, all of the easy analogies have been taken.
What’s worse than a major college football team having a defensive coordinator who makes more than $650,000 a year?
Call it the fool us once, fool us twice section of Washington Supreme Court Justice Debra Stephens’ opinion in the landmark case known as McCleary.
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