Washington Outsiders (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
→ Three day old fish would be embarrassed to be wrapped in this issue of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal. Not only did they lie about Al Franken's election to the Senate, they repeated the same tired lies about Governor Chris Gregoire's 2004 election, again.From The Brad Blog:By Brad Friedman on 7/3/2009 9:45AMWSJ Whackos in Denial: 'Franken Stole It (and So Did Gregoire...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved $700,000 in emergency spending to buy more antiviral medicine for the next flu season.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Last updated July 2, 2009 4:36 p.m. PTNew protocol aids Wash. cherry exportsYAKIMA, Wash. -- Washington and Oregon cherry growers will be able to export sweet cherries to Japan more quickly under a new inspection protocol for codling moth.Gov. Chris Gregoire announced Thursday that Japan has agreed to allow the inspection protocol as a substitute for fumigation pest treatments previously...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved $700,000 in emergency spending to buy more antiviral medicine for the next flu season.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
... agreement benefits both Washington cherry growers and Japanese consumers," Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said. "Japan has been an important market for Washington cherries, and thanks to this new protocol, that trading relationship will continue to be profitable in the years to come."Growers in Washington and Oregon placed the traps in orchards in early to mid-May, said Jim Archer,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved $700,000 in emergency spending to buy more antiviral medicine for the next flu season.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... - has had severe financial troubles of its own and has cut 500 positions in the past year.Gov. Chris Gregoire called the decision to stop printing the 146-year-old P-I a "huge historical loss."Gregoire said that while the tax break won't cure all that ails newspapers, she felt the state needed to do something."The industry has to right itself, and government can't and won't...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... 46 potential new medicines in the pipeline, according to the report. U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee and Gov. Chris Gregoire touted the findings in a press conference at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... of a roughly $200 million shortfall recently pegged to a drop in tax collections.Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire's administration is ordering steps Wednesday to deal with part of the shortfall. But the balance may have to wait until January, when the Legislature returns to work.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... by a dozen people, including executives from Premera Blue Cross and Regence BlueShield and Gov. Chris Gregoire, on the essential features of reform. An overflow crowd of more than 130 people attended the meeting at UW Medicine's South Lake Union campus.Those in the audience gave even bigger applause to Dr. Don Mitchell, chair of the Western Washington chapter of Physicians for a National...
Strange Bedfellows (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... "rewards inefficiency" and "rewards volume" in the form of unnecessary tests.Cantwell and Gov. Chris Gregoire were headliners at a forum sponsored by the University of Washington Medical School.The forum took place on a day of events underscoring the urgency of reform, the political pressure on lawmakers, and the political calculations of getting reform through the U.S. Senate.Victims...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
... and other organizations invested in healthcare. Inslee, along with Washington Governor Chris Gregoire and representatives from biomedical and biotechnology companies, spoke about the report and its key finding—that 119 new medicines developed in Washington labs are now being tested in clinical trials. Produced by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ( PhRMA ),...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
... delegation, including U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks, and Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire are among the strong advocates for the Boeing tanker."These are tough economic times, when we need to be fighting for American jobs, and they're talking about building the planes in France," Dicks said in a recent newspaper report.Likewise, Gregoire speaks out frequently...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
To that end, they have joined a coalition working to keep off the ballot this fall a referendum that would repeal a domestic-partnership law enacted last spring. The bill, passed in the Legislature and signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire, expanded the state's domestic-partnership law and extended marriagelike benefits to same-sex couples who register as domestic partners.
