Up next: ‘Knock down, drag out fight’ over domestic partner law
Having lost a fight to overturn California's Proposition 8, gay rights advocates in Washington are taking aim at a new target: an effort to suspend the state's newly passed domestic partner law.
View ArticleMaria Cantwell is Huffington Post’s ‘sexiest senator’
Last week the Huffington Post asked its readers to pick the sexiest senator on Capitol Hill. More than 40,000 votes later, guess who won?
View ArticleVideo: Election recap pokes fun at mayoral race
Back in November, the guys behind parody video site Seattle Untimely had a little fun with the gubernatorial campaigns of Gov. Chris Gregoire and her Republican opponent, Dino Rossi.
View ArticleWhat will be Nickels’ legacy?
As of 10 a.m., Greg Nickels conceded the mayoral primary to opponents Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn, leaving City Hall after two terms.
View ArticleHumane Society says it can pick up slack in animal control – but how?
UPDATES with comment from Humane Society
View ArticleCapitol Hill bar owner reflects on R-71
This time last year, thousands of residents hit the streets of Capitol Hill to celebrate the election of Barack Obama with an unprecedented show of euphoria.
View ArticleCampaign manager: ‘Unlikely’ R-71 will be called tonight
It's a party, but there may not be anything to celebrate.
View ArticleR-71: ‘We are hopeful, but not stupid’
Thirty-six-year-old Mary Klein was pretty accurate when she described the mood at the campaign's Capitol Hill party as "tentatively optimistic."
View ArticleTechFlash: Did T-Mobile outage hurt Mallahan?
TechFlash reporter John Cook admits it's a far-fetched theory, but when every vote counts, he wrote, it's worth asking whether Tuesday's T-Mobile outages could have hurt Seattle mayoral candidate Joe...
View ArticleSeattle-based writer bashes Huckabee in The New York Times
Seattle-based journalist Tim Egan has written a column in The New York Times about Mike Huckabee and Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of having shot and killed four Lakewood police officers Sunday...
View ArticleNate Silver: Clemmons case could damage Huckabee
Noted statistician Nate Silver won a national audience blogging about polls during the 2008 presidential election.
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