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The Office of Secretary of State, led by independently elected official Sam Reed, will be taking some deep cuts in the upcoming

On Day 103 of the 105-day legislative session in Oly, we're finally seeing hard copy on a new $31.4 billion, two-year state budget. It's the majority Democrats' House-Senate compromise that closes a $9 billion budget gap without higher

The Legislature has sent Governor Gregoire a measure allowing ex-convicts to get their voting

So former Governor Gary Locke is now America's Commerce Secretary.

By the closest possible margin, House Democrats' sales-tax

The long-expected ballot proposition for a November tax vote is on the move in the Washington Legislature. The plan,

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the country's first Chinese-American governor when he served Washington state from 1997 to 200