Elections 2016

Monday is the day the Electoral College will do its thing and cast sufficient votes to make Donald Trump the next president of the United States.  When that happens it won’t be because a flurry of activity wasn’t launched to prevent it from happening...

President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, General James “Bulldog” Mattis is a Washington state native and now Mr. Trump seems poised to pick another Washingtonian for his cabinet.  The online news site The Hill is reporting that Rep...

4th District Congressman Dan Newhouse is fine with the short term appropriations act passed by the house today. ( H.R. 2028, the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017)  If passed by the Senate and signed by the President the measure would fund the federal government through April, 2017...

President-elect Donald Trump continues to assemble his cabinet and at the same time he makes his way throughout the rust belt to say thanks to the people who defied conventional wisdom to vote for him.  Supporters are optimistic and encouraged by his message to dream big...

Yes. He really did just say that.

President Obama is expected to deliver an address Wednesday afternoon in the wake of Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, pulling off what many consider to be a stunning upset.

Yakima County Auditor Charles Ross says more than 70 percent of county voters turned out for the presidential election on Tuesday. And that 70 percent number is expected to grow when more ballots are counted today. Ross tells KIT News, "We're going to process more ballots in this election than the county ever has because we have a larger data base...

In with the new and back in with the incumbent (not “old”).    Yakima County’s two commissioner races saw District #1 incumbent Mike Leita  easily win re-election with 57.4% of the vote over his challenger Eric Geary with 41.2% .   In District #2 incumbent Kevin Bouchey decided to step down which opened the race to Debra Manjarrez and Ron Anderson...

Washington state has a total of 49 state Senate seats and 26 of them are up for re-election this year.  Washington’s senators hold staggered, four-year terms with about half of the Senate scheduled for election every two years. Republicans hold a  one-seat majority against the Democrats in the Washington State Senate, which is considered by ballotpedia to be one of 20 battleground chambers... Read