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| Vancouver millennials inspired to run for office | A white-haired politician who came of age during the civil rights movement and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War has inspired a handful of Southwest Washington millennials to try to change today鈥檚 political landscape. Bernie Sanders has 鈥渃atalyzed a movement,鈥 said鈥 |
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| Trump, Clinton win Washington鈥檚 presidential primary | Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, said voters seemed to take a keen interest in Washington鈥檚 primary this year, despite that it won鈥檛 have much influence on the presidential race. He said part of that interest may be the effect of outsider鈥 |
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| Washington Republicans gather for state convention with more than Trump on their minds | With Donald Trump emerging as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a little of the drama has been removed from the state GOP convention that opened Wednesday in Pasco. But important issues remain, such as selecting the state's 44 presidential delegates and getting more鈥 |
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| Debating the Democratic Party's superdelegates and their role in 2016 | "Rigged!" shouts MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. "Rigged," declares a New York Post headline. "Disenfranchised," blasts Donald Trump. Some folks on the left and right are heaping scorn on the presidential primary systems. For Democrats, Saturday's鈥 |
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| Bemoaning Political Attacks Won't Fix the Problem | Almost everyone bemoans the attacks and finger pointing that have become an inevitable part of virtually every political campaign. Candidates who agree on little else claim to share this frustration. Bernie Sanders has emphasized that he鈥檚 鈥渘ever run a negative ad in his life,鈥 and Ted Cruz has鈥 |
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| Democrats in Washington to make their pick for president at Saturday caucuses | For Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders, Washington state is a prize he can鈥檛 afford to lose. The Vermont senator trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a wide margin in the battle for the party鈥檚 nomination. But the Sanders campaign hopes a strong showing at鈥 |
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| The Ghosts of Caucuses Past | It was the summer of 1975. The Vietnam War had just ended. The Bee Gees comeback hit 鈥淛ive Talkin鈥 鈥 was climbing the charts. And Steffen Schmidt was kicking back with friends, barbecuing and drinking beer at a neighbor鈥檚 farm in Iowa, when the group noticed a small band of cyclists turning off鈥 |
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| Nominations needed for faculty citizenship award | |||
| Community event will address money in politics | 鈥淢oney in Politics鈥 will be the subject of a free program and community discussion offered by the League of Women Voters of Bellingham and Whatcom County this week. |
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| Lack of Bellingham consensus likely tipped jail vote | A variety of factors, including a lack of consensus on how to pay for and build a new Whatcom County Jail, likely played into the voters鈥 decision to turn down a jail sales tax measure on Nov. 3. 鈥淵ou know, it wasn鈥檛 just a one-sided tether, it was a multitude of constituencies that had鈥 |