Political Beat

Ann Rivers, the La Center businesswoman who's leading the pack in fund-raising in the hot 18th District race, won the endorsement of the National Rifle Association this week. "Ann Rivers is […]

Brian Peck, the Republican gas station owner who's running to unseat Democrat Tim Probst in the 17th District, put out the alert Tuesday: "Last night Monica Stonier and Tim […]

Pressed by Jerry Cornfield, a reporter and columnist for the Everett Daily Herald, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dino Rossi said late Monday that if he were serving in the U.S. […]

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Vancouver, may be a lame duck, but that hasn't stopped the arch-conservative group Americans for Limited Government from taking pot-shots at him. On Monday, ALG President Bill […]

Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate David Castillo will join fellow opponents of the new health reform law in San Diego this Saturday to address a group that calls itself the […]

Republican David Castillo has won endorsements from the Seattle Times, the Longview Daily News, the Chronicle of Centralia and the Columbian in his primary campaign for the open 3rd Congressional […]

Will he or won’t he? After reading Columbian Editor Lou Brancaccio’s column Saturday, Rich Carson is considering withdrawing from the 18th Legislative District race. The independent candidate says he fed up with […]

Kelly Hinton, who writes the acerbic Clark County Politics blog, has a foe in the blogosphere. An unnamed blogger has launched kellyhintonwatch, riffing on Hinton's own Jon Russell Watch and Jaime […]

Congressional candidate David W. Hedrick seized the moment at Gov. Chris Gregoire’s Vancouver budget forum Tuesday night to confront the governor on her 2009 executive order on climate change […]