Seattle's Convention Center is taking a close look at expanding, perhaps at a different location. It might complicate the coming legislative session if it puts its hand in the state trough of money for tourism-related taxes. Also crowding around the trough are the Huskies, King County arts, Seattle
How we yearn to see ourselves on a presidential ticket, why John McCain wants a "soul mate," and what the Sarah Palin pick says about the battle for the soul of the GOP.
Sarah Palin has a zinger for you. And you. And me. The Alaska governor-turned-Trophy Vice [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin]-turned-bulldog with lipstick sent a fiery pot-shot-filled message [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04repubday.html?_r=1&
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is hardly the first from this corner of the country to run for one of the highest offices, but those who made it to the general election are relatively few.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain might be the "anti-earmark candidate [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/whose-budget-is-bigger/?ref=opinion]," but as The Seattle Times reports, McCain's VP pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, requested more than $197 million in federal earmarks
