(Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives.) We’ve reached the fifth and final in a series of blog posts featuring classic State Archives photos of Washington governors signing bills into law. Closing it out are Gary Locke and Chris Gregoire.  Locke is featured above at a 2001 bill signing, and Gregoire is shown below in a [...]

(Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives.) Latest in our series of blog posts featuring classic State Archives photos of previous Washington governors signing bills into law. Today we’re focusing on the late Booth Gardner and Mike Lowry. Gardner is shown at top signing a bill in his office. (Note the plate of souvenir pens.) The [...]

Patrick McDonald’s ceremonial promotion to Army Sergeant Major drew dozens of friends, colleagues, three Washington secretaries of state, and officials of all three branches of government. McDonald, who was assistant to then-Gov. John Spellman and legislators, has been a top official in the Secretary of State’s executive office, handling everything from visitor protocol and bill-signings [...]

Secretary of State Kim Wyman was honored Wednesday as a “woman of distinction” by the Girl Scouts of Western Washington. At a crowded Olympia hotel ballroom, she joined fellow honorees Eileen McKenzies Sullivan, director of Senior Services for South Sound, and Erin Jones, director of equity and achievement for the Federal Way schools.  Each told [...]