Email Author Catherine Tarpley

2000 Stories by Catherine Tarpley

• Governor Soccer Dad

  published May 17, 2000

  AFTER FIVE QUIET, scandal-free years of living in the governor's mansion, Gary Locke will ask voters statewide to mark his name at the... More >>

• City of nylon

  published April 19, 2000

  The battle rages on between city officials and a group of homeless people demanding the right to sleep in tents. For the past few weeks... More >>

• Budget blues

  published April 12, 2000

  IT'S HIGH NOON in Olympia, and no one is backing down. State government is hopelessly gridlocked over how to solve the funding crisis... More >>

• BUS-ted

  published March 8, 2000

  THE DISGRUNTLED taxpayers who gathered signatures to put Initiative 695 on the ballot have received some special packages in the past... More >>

• Loveland's labor lost?

  published February 23, 2000

  "TEN YEARS AGO you're paying $600 in [property] taxes, now you're paying $2,600, and everything is the same," is how Dan McGowan, an... More >>

• Sticking it to ya

  published February 16, 2000

  AS ANNIE MAYS-MAHOOD can testify, it's hell to not have affordable health insurance. She nearly lost everything after her husband David... More >>

• Transportation Locke-up

  published February 2, 2000

  Angry Vashon Island residents, 307 of them, sailed an Argosy cruise ship into Olympia on a foggy morning last Thursday to protest ferry... More >>

• The Eyman Show!

  published January 5, 2000

  It's time once again for our state legislators to file dutifully into the lovely domed building in Olympia to pass laws to improve all... More >>