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The race to manage Washington's budget mess
Sitting in a bright, empty doughnut shop along Seattle’s Third Avenue, Erin Jones does something politicians normally don’t:
Tom James
Tom James is a feature writer and photographer from Kingston, Washington, who has reported from Seattle, Olympia, Guatemala, Jordan, and the Olympic Peninsula on topics ranging from drug use in the Na
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Bryant got aggressive in gubernatorial debate. But did it work?
To the extent that a state-level political debate — not shown in its entirety on any major network — is ever anyone’
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Primary sharpens fight to control Legislature
Could Washington Democrats take both houses of the state Legislature this year? With most of Washington’s votes counted Tuesday
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The fight for the tough job running state schools
It seemed like a scenario that would create news headlines so big that they would force action in Olympia. A
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Lt. Governor race gets bloody
The realist, the fighter, the outsider, and the really, really experienced one — that’s how you might think about the