News Team | April 7, 2012
Mike Baker, Associated Press | 4-06-2012 The special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee for a month could cost Washington state about $1 million after the expense of educating voters about the confusing ballot situation is factored, officials said Friday. OLYMPIA, Wash. — The special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee [...]
News Team | February 10, 2012
Peter Callaghan, TNT – Political Buzz | 2-10-2012 Rick Santorum will bring his surging GOP presidential campaign to Tacoma-Olympia on Monday The former Pennsylvania senator will hold several events, one public, when he visits Washington state on Monday. Andrea Innes, a state committeewoman from Pierce County, said the state party has notified party officials that [...]
News Team | February 5, 2012
Terry Harder announces he is running for The State Legislature in District 29 Position 1. Terry a resident of Pierce County for 50 years, the father of 3 Children and 8 grandchildren, is a Business Consultant for a National Office Supply company’. He believes that “small business is the key to creating jobs in Washington”. [...]
News Team | December 3, 2011
Lewis Kamb, TNT | 12-02-2011 Washington Republican Party Chairman Kirby Wilbur said today Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland should apologize for her recent remarks to a group of Pacific Lutheran University college students in which she called the GOP “racist.” Kirby WilburMarilyn Strickland “I think the appropriate thing for her to do would be to issue [...]
News Team | December 2, 2011
TNT -The Nose | 12-02-2011 We always knew a trip to Parkland could be dangerous, but not like this. The mayor of Tacoma took her show on the road and stepped in the doo-doo. She appeared before a small, friendly group of students on the Pacific Lutheran University campus and promptly stepped in it – [...]
Sherry | November 5, 2011
DANIEL WAGNER and BERNARD CONDON, AP | 11-05-2011 WASHINGTON — He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers. Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s resignation Friday from the securities firm he led capped a week of high drama and swift failure. MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy Monday, [...]
News Team | October 16, 2011
Jordan Schrader, TNT | 10-16-2011 Republicans and Democrats took their latest negotiating postures Friday in the process of redrawing districts for the state Legislature. The bipartisan Redistricting Commission unveiled two maps, one for each party, a step in the process of setting state political lines that the commission hopes to finish by ……Read More
News Team | July 20, 2011
Steve Maynard, TNT | 7-20-2011 One week after a controversial redistricting map was adopted, the chairman of the Pierce County Council proposed Tuesday asking voters to reduce the number of council members from seven to five, which would require redrawing boundaries again in 2012. Chairman Roger Bush said cutting two council positions would save the [...]
News Team | July 7, 2011
Brad Shannon, The Olympian | 7-07-2011 State Republican Party chairman Kirby Wilbur spoke to reporters this morning in Washington about a new Republican-paid ad airing in 50 states that attacks President Obama’s record on the economy. The Republican National Committee held press briefings with 13 states, including Washington. It and state Republican chairman Kirby Wilbur [...]
News Team | July 5, 2011
Peter Callaghan, TNT | 7-05-2011 There’s an idea floating around the fairly small circle of Pierce County Districting Committee followers that might either be a simple fix to a thorny problem or a controversial blending of politics and map making. What if the five-member districting committee took the final map submitted by Districting Master Steven [...]