Christine Gregoire News

Call Gov. Gregoire about proposed budget cuts to OT, Speech and Dental for adults with disabilities.

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said Wednesday the state will no longer accept any more convicted criminals on parole from Arkansas until she's assured of a better system for sending them back.

This post has been updated. The Seattle City Council has hired Laura Lockard to handle its communications.

Now that the suspected Lakewood Police killer is dead and off the streets of Seattle, Governor Chris Gregoire wants the citizens of Washington State to turn their attention to supporting the families of the slain officers.

The automated pollster SurveyUSA is out with its latest batch of gubernatorial approval ratings from the nine states it surveyed , and the results look dispiriting for Democratic governors.

Gov. Bev Perdue attended the opening of Novartis' new facility in Holly Springs last week.

Facing an estimated $2.6 billion dollar shortfall, Gov. Christine Gregoire is considering expanding the state's keno lottery game, her staff confirmed Friday.

It looks like the Governor Gregoire that we know and love - the courageous governor who's not afraid to stand up to Tim Eyman and conservative editorial writers - it looks like that governor , at long last, is finally back in action.

Bad news for Washington State continues as declining tax revenues now put the state budget deficit at $2.6 billion.

State lawmakers are trembling at the thought of what it will take to close the state's growing $2.6 billion budget deficit.

At last night's Post-Election Analysis forum sponsored by Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Governor Chris Gregoire announced that, unlike last year, she expects there to be at least some new revenue to soften the expected cuts to balance the $2.6 budget deficit.

As Will mentioned , Gov. Christine Gregoire spoke last night at a fundraiser for Jeanne Kohl-Welles near Ballard and, during the talk, made a notable declaration.

Why worry? Raise the taxes, let the unions take over, let the businesses & wealth leave the state - Seattle could go real grunge and look like Detroit.

A Moore Information survey released last week shows challenger Dino Rossi leading incumbent Christine Gregoire 48% to 42% in the 2008 gubernatorial contest, prompting the pollsters to speculate about the Washington state GOP's rising prospects: The fact that Rossi leads in this match-up is interesting and encouraging for Republicans in and of ...

A state-wide hiring freeze that ended on July 1 of this year did not hold Governor Gregoire back from petitioning for a new speech writer months before the freeze ended.

After every general election, Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles hosts a forum for political wonks at the Hale's Brewery in Ballard.

A polling firm out of Portland, Ore., is looking to the past and present to try to determine the possible future for Republicans in Washington state.

It's a scary new report on the state of Washington's budget problems. Governor Chris Gregoire says some basic services are now on the chopping block.

Governor Christine Gregoire, left, asks Dimmitt Middle School sixth-grader Thalia Beed, right, about a math project her group is working on.

These things don't happen in a vacuum, and so it is not surprising to see Gov. Chris GregoireA joining the chorus of establishment voices demanding that the ballot deadline be changed from postmarked on election day to received by election day.