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The intense lobbying campaign over health care reform that targeted U.S. Rep. Brian Baird peaked Friday with mass e-mails from the White House urging Vancouver residents to generate 193 calls […]

Sen. Craig Pridemore has won the endorsement of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 4 in his campaign for the the 3rd Congressional District seat. It's the Vancouver Democrat's first […]

The Republican Party is pressuring Democratic congressional candidate Denny Heck to state his position on the Senate health care reform bill the House is preparing to vote on soon. On […]

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 […]