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...don't know any more than that.'' Other governors stayed home to attend to state business, including Washington Gov. Gary Locke, who sent Lt. Gov. Brad Owen to the trade event instead. Ventura insisted that he's doing Minnesota's business...
...Alamos and nearly 40 temporary buildings at the laboratory. The Red Cross set up shelters in nearby Kennewick and Gov. Gary Locke declared an emergency in Benton County, activating the National Guard to assist in evacuations. The flames, fueled...
...fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona on Tuesday, but there was bad news elsewhere. Washington Gov. Gary Locke declared a state of emergency due to a high fire danger and a shortage of firefighters. As many as 500 National Guard...
...Washington's Klickitat County, but firefighters kept the flames from spreading to a handful of remote homes. Gov. Gary Locke on Friday banned outdoor and agricultural burning across the state due to extreme fire conditions and a shortage of firefighters...
...Washington, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Missouri, Vermont, West Virginia and Indiana. Washington incumbent Gary Locke, the nation's first Chinese-American governor, defeated former radio talk show host John Carlson. Delaware's...
...It had been extended by Abraham. A number of the governors, including Oregon's John Kitzhaber and Washington's Gary Locke, are demanding that the federal government impose limits on electricity rate increases. Kitzhaber said "controlling...
...Northwest, where states have been riding high on the technology boom, is beginning to feel the pinch. Washington Gov. Gary Locke, a Democrat, has proposed $236 million in cuts to social services, health and prisons. "We will have to take some...
...Cracked buildings, crushed cars and crumbled roads dominate the landscape rocked by an earthquake. Within hours of Gov. Gary Locke's request for federal aid, President Bush declared the region a federal disaster, clearing the way for low-interest...
...last week's 6.8-magnitude earthquake. Preliminary estimates peg the quake's damage at $2 billion, but Gov. Gary Locke and lawmakers are unsure what the state's cost will be. Besides the shortfall, lawmakers are stymied by a state spending...
...lawmaker warned that the state may not receive federal money to repair the Capitol because of a labor agreement Gov. Gary Locke signed. In anticipation of legislators approving $89 million in improvements to the building, Locke, a Democrat...