The Mayor joined Island Hospital board members and the hospital's CEO in cutting the ribbon at Tuesday night's grand opening of the hospital's new $10.3 million Medical Arts Pavilion, which actually went into operation on Jan. 9.
At 6 p.m. Wednesday (Jan 25) night, thousands of automated phone
calls will go out to citizens throughout the 40th legislative district,
inviting them to stay on the line to take part in Rep. Kristine Lytton's
first-ever telephone town hall.
The school district has added 4 new school days to this year's school calendar to make up for what it called "wild and unpredictable" winter weather that forced the schools to close for 4 days last week.
Greetings from Olympia! Today marks the start of the third week of the 2012 session. The first week was filled with a flurry of bills being dropped, and the second week was filled with a flurry of snow.
Behind the scenes with esteemed Russian choreographer, Alexei Ratmansky, who directs Pacific Northwest Ballet in the American premiere of his production of Don Quixote, opening next week.}
Now comes the counterattack.
After weeks of taking it on the chin in Florida without throwing a punch, the Gingrich side has finally begun to fight back with TV attack ads of its own.
Among the new ads is one from a pro-Gingrich super PAC that take...
Newt Gingrich falsely claimed he never favored a federal mandate requiring individuals to have health insurance.
Romney repeated a false accusation that President Obama failed to denounce Hamas rocket attacks in a speech to the United Nations. And Sa...
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