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Southwest Washington candidates nab more endorsements

With about two weeks into election season, many legislative candidates from Clark County are celebrating their endorsements. This is in addition to endorsements many of them received heading into filing […]

How Our State’s Members Of Congress Voted Last Week

Here’s how area senators voted on major issues in the week ending May 25. The House was in recess. Take note of how the Senate voted on the Democratic and Republican […]

McKenna takes ‘The Client List’ and Lifetime to task

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna recently penned an op-ed piece for Huffington Post that calls out the Lifetime Television channel’s hit television show “The Client List” for glorifying prostitution. “This portrayal […]

Members of Congress dumbing down their speeches

Today’s members of Congress speak, on average, at about a 10th-grade reading level, according to a recent study that matches the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to what Congress says according to […]

How Tea Party is Congresswoman Herrera Beutler?

A shift of power fueled in part by the Tea Party movement placed 87 new Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. This month, Club for […]

Gubernatorial candidates take Parade of Bands in stride, literally

As several entries of Saturday's Parade of Bands donned wigs and colorful outfits and rode on elaborate floats, we at The Columbian were curious what the two gubernatorial candidates would […]

Benton files for re-election, brings photographer

Of more than three dozen local candidates who have filed for office this week, only state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, thought to send out a press release that included a […]

Candidates kick off campaigns with big-name guests

What do U.S. Rep. John Boehner, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and outgoing state Sen. Lisa Brown have in common? No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. They are some […]

Mike Appel drops out of state representative race

Vancouver purchasing agent Mike Appel announced on Monday evening that he will no longer seek election to the 17th Legislative District seat held by Rep. Tim Probst, D-Vancouver. Appel, who describes […]

How Our State’s Members Of Congress Voted Last Week

Here’s how Washington members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending May 11. (A little background about why I’m re-posting this can be found here.) House MILITARY SPENDING INCREASE: […]

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