Month: March 2010

Martin Hash got rich inventing 3-D animation software that's used around the world. For fun, he goes backpacking with his wife for 10 months across Africa and the Middle East […]

Who says lawmakers in Olympia couldn't find the gumption to slice some fat from the $30 billion two-year state budget this year? This week the House of Representatives voted to eliminate […]

State Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, has a new campaign headquarters -- in Tumwater -- and he's hired a new press secretary in his bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty […]

Democrat Denny Heck has scored the first major labor endorsement in the 3rd Congressional District race. The Olympia entrepreneur's campaign announced Thursday that Heck has been endorsed by Local […]

Local politico (and regular Political Beat commenter) Lew Waters has an especially interesting post this morning about rumors of a Paulista "takeover" of the local GOP: "As scuttlebutt has it, a […]

Yesterday's post about Commissioner Steve Stuart's impressive fundraising had us wondering who Stuart might be so worried about. So I called local Republican Party Chairman Ryan Hart to ask. Here's what Hart […]

Commissioner Steve Stuart (D) doesn't even have an opponent yet, and he's already got more money for his 2010 re-election than Jeanne Harris (D) raised in her entire 2008 commissioner […]

Cheryl Crist, an Olympia Democrat who is making her third run for the 3rd Congressional District seat, has called for an end to burning coal at the TransAlta coal plant […]

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray joined 29 other senators Monday in committing to support a public option if it is brought up as part of an attempt to pass a health […]