This past week, Democrats from all 50 states and several territories gathered in Charlotte, N.C., for the 46th Democratic National Convention (DNC). There, delegates unanimously voted to renominate Barack Obama and Joe Biden for a second term, and approved a platform outlining the party’s beliefs. I traveled to Charlotte last Saturday to represent our state as a delegate, and have greatly enjoyed being in the middle of all of the action.
This past week, the Republican Party held its 40th national convention in Tampa, Florida, where more than 2,000 delegates nominated Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to be their standard bearers for president and vice president.
Sound Transit will officially inaugurate service at its new Mountlake Terrace highway station at 236th Street Southwest on March 20 in Snohomish County.
Every year, during the final weeks before January rolls around again, retailers and auto-makers go to great lengths to persuade…
If pundits are to be believed, the hottest contest for elected office in our state this year is our U.S. Senate race, now that Dino Rossi has decided to challenge Patty Murray.
After a year of fierce debate and wrangling, Congress has finally done something that many of the people who cover…
For much of our state’s recent political history, colorful and exciting top-of-the-ticket races have been a staple of the electoral…
One of the most popular and oft-repeated cliches in American history, which comes to us from Benjamin Franklin, humorously posits…
Proving that last summer’s opening of Central Link was merely the beginning of a new era, Sound Transit has extended…
Negotiators from around the world met in Copenhagen, Denmark last week to hammer out an agreement to replace the Kyoto…
Eighty years ago, in a dissenting opinion opposing a Supreme Court decision that supported warrantless wiretapping by federal agents, Justice…
Voters spoke loud and clear in the general election. Across the state, Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1033 failed (by big margins)…
In contest for assessor, one candidate stands head and shoulders above the rest. This November, for the second time in…
Think the recent budget passed by the State Legislature was bad? If so, be prepared for something much, much worse…
The waiting, arguing, and litigating is finally over.
Voting shouldn’t be hard. That simple four sentence is a complaint I repeatedly hear from people when I ask them…
So long, Washington Mutual, also known as WaMu. Over the past few weeks the familiar yellow and blue WaMu signs…
This November, voters in King County have a very important choice to make: who should succeed Ron Sims as the…
Much has been written about the budget shortfall that Gov. Chris Gregoire and state lawmakers are grappling with in Olympia this legislative session.
Every year, thousands of Washingtonians take ownership of new single family homes.
