Washington lawmakers plan to pass a major highway-tolling bill
No sense waiting: With failure of Proposition 1 in metro Puget Sound, they say, guidelines need to be established for the inevitable use of tolls to pay for transportation improvements.
No sense waiting: With failure of Proposition 1 in metro Puget Sound, they say, guidelines need to be established for the inevitable use of tolls to pay for transportation improvements.
After a day on post-election clean-up, I can provide a couple of updates on two of Washington's statewide ballot measures.
It's been a long journey to the trial of Frederick David Russell, who is charged with vehicular homicide related to an awful 2001 accident on the highway between Pullman, Wash., and Moscow, Idaho. He fled to Ireland, and now the trial is being held in Kelso, Wash.
The fired U.S. attorney for Western Washington, speaking to the organization named for the slain assistant U.S. attorney, levels his harshest criticism yet at the leadership of the department formerly headed by Alberto Gonzales.
The 2008 governor's race might not be official, but it's real.