A bill under consideration by lawmakers in Olympia would change the state's policy on medical marijuana, and cleanup some of the mess leftover from last year's partially vetoed pot legislation. So why does one of the state's leading cannabis advocacy groups oppose the proposal?
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The last time Willard Mitt Romney was here about 50 Occupy Seattle protesters converged on his hotel, the Grand Hyatt. They carried signs that read, "This is class warfare," "Make Wall Street pay," and "Romney is the 1 percent." The party wouldn't have been complete without ribbing chants of "Corporations are not people," a clear refutation to a statement Willard wished he could have stuffed back in his mouth at the Iowa State Fair.
Legislation that would allow authorities to block gang members from visiting certain neighborhoods gets a public hearing later this morning in Olympia, but King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg says the controversial law wouldn't be of much use here in Seattle.
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Kierkegaard once confided in his personal journal that he would have been much happier as a police spy than a philosopher. As for Richard Nixon, he always yearned to be a sportswriter. Then there's young Michael Baumgartner, who appears to have lived a life as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar -- a life, whose trajectory, he suggests, would be nicely accelerated if he were the next U.S. Senator from Washington.
"I wished I could have come to the point that I am today six years ago, seven years ago, five years ago," Gov. Chris Gregoire says, hoping to explain why - now as a lame duck politican - she finally joined the growing ranks of gay-marriage supporters. "But it took me a journey and for that, I'm sorry that it took me as long as it did. But it's genuine. It's not about politics. It's very heartfelt. It's about my [Catholic] faith and I have struggled with it."
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During her 2000 Senate race, some of the wags covering the contest -- hell, even members of her own campaign staff -- called her Maria "Can't Smile." The mean-spirited moniker, as I recall it, first surfaced in one of the many candidate profiles that appeared in which an employee at RealNetworks, where Cantwell worked, said that was the term some workers applied -- behind her back, of course -- to their sometimes difficult boss.
Not too long ago, Victoria Jackson was the helium-voiced "Saturday Night Live" cast member who always seemed to play the ditz. Now she's a Tea Party princess who co-hosts a right-wing version of "The View" and sings songs about how Obama's a Muslim. How'd that happen?
Capital punishment foes convene today in Olympia to rally behind a bill sponsored by Sen. Debbie Regala, D-Tacoma, which would put an end to the death penalty in Washington, where 110 executions have been carried out since Jan. 5, 1849, when Cussas and Quallahworst, two Native Americans, were hanged for murder. The highly emotional issue has elevated, or -- in the case of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis -- crippled the hopes of many a politician. Let's see how he handled the question ("What If Kitty Were Murdered?") in his debate with George H.W. Bush.
After winning an upset write-in vote to become mayor of the city of Pacific, population 6,000, Cy Sun continues to surprise his constituents. A political newcomer, he not only beat the two-term incumbent by 70 votes in November (going door-to-door to solicit write-in backing), one of his first acts was to seek a lower weekly wage - $15 - essentially saying he'd serve for free. The newest surprise though is a real stunner: did he exaggerate claims about his war record to win election? 
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Throughout his long political career, Slade Gorton was often characterized as aloof and arrogant, impatient, out of touch. His cocky certainty on seemingly every issue of the day made people furious, though they admired -- were even awed -- by the sheer intellectualism that guided him as a three-term Senator, and in retirement, a distinguished member of the 911 Commission, and recently, an appointee who carved up Washington's new congressional districts.
