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Fluor Hanford offers voluntary layoffs to employees
Fluor Hanford employees were offered the chance to apply for voluntary layoffs Wednesday as the company's contract with the Department of Energy expires.
McKenna: Supreme Court is the big prize in the presidential election
Postman follows up on a PolitickerWA report from the Republican convention, noting Attorney General Rob McKenna's bold prediction that Dino Rossi is dead in the water if John McCain loses Washinton state by ...
Dam defense mounted, but this year no one is attacking
Two members of Congress from Eastern Washington are loudly defending four dams on the Snake River that environmentalists have long sought to breach.
Snake River dams figure in E. Washington congressional races
Cathy McMorris Rodgers says hydro power is a major reason Washington's carbon footprint is lower than places where coal is burned for electricity.
Tax activist focuses on spending
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist on Monday urged the Washington state delegation to the Republican National Convention to press efforts to curb "excessive" government spending in remarks ...
Strange Bedfellows Blog: GOP says Gregoire wrong to go to DNC
Stewart Powell is in St. Paul, Minn., for the Republican National Convention. GOP gubernatorial hopeful Dino Rossi, as well as Republican Reps.
POLITICS: Hastings to skip Republican convention
Reps. Doc Hastings and Dave Reichert of Washington state are the latest Northwest Republicans to announce they are skipping the Republican National Convention.
U.S. Rep. Hastings won't attend Republican National Convention
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, won't attend next week's Republican National Convention in St.
Hanford's B Reactor named National Historic Landmark
Hanford's B Reactor has been designated a National Historic Landmark, an important step in helping preserve the historic reactor as a museum.
Grant PUD revels in new license for dams
Before about 150 guests, Grant County PUD reveled in successfully renewing a federal license to own and operate its Columbia River dams on Thursday.
In Washington state's first top-two primary, the election race for Grant County Superior Court judge appears over.
Primary Election Official Nominations
Rick Bart, GOP, nominated U.S. House, District 2, Washington. Rick Larsen, Dem, nominated U.S. House, District 2, Washington.
It's (Still) Party Time For Lobbyists
But the House Ethics Committee opened a huge loophole in the new rule by issuing guidelines last December saying it was fine for lobbyists or their employers to throw parties for a group of House members - just ...
Rep. Hastings says drilling the answer to energy self-sufficiency
Congressman Doc Hastings believes the democratic system of government will help take care of many challenges the nation faces, but leadership needs to get its priorities right, Hastings told more than 80 ...
Hastings backs offshore drilling in the Arctic as a stopgap move
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings wants to lift a moratorium on oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but only as a way to buy time until other sources of energy are more practical.
Congressman Holds Wine Roundtable Meeting in Prosser
Members of the wine industry in the lower Yakima valley sat down with U.S. Representative Doc Hastings Monday.
Doctors who won't make house calls
Stop the presses. Congressman Doc Hastings is NOT a real doctor! This latest revelation has been making its way through the local "Progressive" blogosphere; breathlessly exposing the scandal.
There's Something About George
George Fearing is a very interesting candidate who is running for Congress against Doc Hastings in WA-04. He has several new video and radio clips available on his website and they are some of the most ...
ELECTIONS: Rep. Hastings to appear before Mainstream GOP today
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., and several other candidates for public office are scheduled to be guest speakers at today's meeting of the Benton-Franklin Mainstream Republicans.
Legislators lauded for work to save medical center
It's not often that three U.S. legislators from two parties in the same state appear together to crow about how they teamed up to pass a piece of legislation.