President Obama Planning to Visit Seattle
President Barack Obama will be visiting Seattle on Monday, September 25, according to a report in the Seattle Times. He will make a stop in Seattle and in San Francisco the same day on a three-day tour...
View ArticlePresident Jimmy Carter to Speak in Seattle
Through The Carter Center and his books, President Carter challenges us to think about our place in the world and the role that citizen diplomacy plays in building peace globally. On Tuesday, January...
View ArticleObama to Tour Boeing Plant in Everett
SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama will visit Boeing in Everett during his visit on Friday. The White House says Obama will talk about domestic manufacturing and promoting American exports at the...
View ArticleObama Heading to Seattle After Stops in CA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent and raising campaign cash among the 1 percent, walking an election year tight rope complicated by...
View ArticleObama’s Visiting WA Today to Focus on Trade
Obama promoting steps to boost US trade KEN THOMAS,Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama is outlining new steps to boost U.S. exports during a visit to a Boeing assembly plant in...
View ArticleObama Shifts G-8 From Chicago to Camp David
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the upcoming G-8 economic summit in Chicago, and would instead host world leaders at the presidential...
View ArticleKerry: Diplomacy Can Still Avert Iran Crisis
BOSTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry says the U.S. and Israel should try to reach consensus on when Iran’s nuclear program might reach the point of becoming a major threat. Kerry, who chairs the Foreign...
View ArticlePresident Obama Holds Fundraiser Lunch in Seattle
You are invited to join President Barack Obama and his musical guest Dave Matthews for an Obama Victory Fund 2012 luncheon in Seattle on Thursday, May 10. The luncheon will be held at the Paramount...
View ArticlePresident Obama Visiting West Coast
RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Obama plans to visit Reno next week and discuss the economy. The White House press office says the president will travel to Reno on Friday for an unspecified official event...
View ArticlePresident Obama Wants WA to Get More College Degrees
SEATTLE (AP) — A new government report shows Washington is one of 15 states that saw the number of college degrees held by 25- to 34-year-olds decrease during the recession. The data was released...
View ArticleObama Says He is ‘Shocked’ by Colorado Shooting
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday he was “shocked and saddened” by a deadly shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater and urged the nation to “come together as one American...
View ArticleObama Defends Foreign Policy Record During Trip to NV
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Plunging back into divisive politics, President Barack Obama on Monday declared he has kept the United States safe while suggesting that Republican Mitt Romney has offered little to...
View ArticlePresident Obama Attends Two Seattle Area Fundraisers
SEATTLE (AP) — President Obama plans to spend the night at the Hilton Bellevue hotel after attending two fundraising events at the home of Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal on the east side of Lake...
View ArticleObama Takes Off From Seattle for New Orleans
SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama is addressing his most solidly supportive constituency, black voters, as he wraps up a four-day, five-state trip. After a fundraising swing through the Seattle and...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama Avoids The Issues With Negative Campaign
Though Americans tend to love a good fight, the political bickering thrust forward by President Barack Obama on Mitt Romney really isn’t the type of good fight Americans love at all. The squabbling...
View ArticleOpinion: Joe Biden’s Asinine Comments Aren’t Cute Anymore
The fact that Joe Biden is only a heartbeat away from the presidency should not only scare the hell out of every American, it should be reason enough for the Romney-Ryan ticket to win the 2012...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s Campaign Speech ‘Press Conference’ In The White House
It took weeks of highly-publicized media criticism of President Barack Obama to finally get him to agree to do a second White House Press Corps press conference question-and-answer session in 2012....
View ArticleFirst Lady Visits Seattle; Heads to Denver
SEATTLE (AP) — Michelle Obama has visited Seattle to help raise money for the president’s re-election campaign. She arrived early Tuesday evening at Boeing Field and was taken by motorcade to a...
View ArticleWhere to Watch the Presidential Inauguration in Seattle
Monday, January 21, 2013 is the second Presidential Inauguration for Barack Obama in Washington DC. Join in with your neighbors in Seattle and watch this American event that only happens once every...
View ArticleUniversity Of Washington Names President
SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington Board of Regents on Tuesday chose Ana Mari Cauce to be the school’s next president, making her the first woman, first openly gay person and first Latina to...
View ArticlePresident Signs Washington Wildfire Disaster Declaration
SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster exists in the state of Washington following this summer’s wildfires and mudslides. The disaster declaration makes federal money...
View ArticleUW’s New President To Be Paid $910,000 In Total Compensation
SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington’s new president, Ana Mari Cauce, will be making $910,000 in total compensation, a few thousand more than WSU’s Elson Floyd was paid in total compensation...
View ArticleRecap: Final Presidential Debate
CBS SEATTLE – Election day is 19 full days away as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will try one last time to sway voters. Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News delved into six segments during this...
View ArticleDonald Trump Elected 45th President
WASHINGTON D.C. – As of 11:29 p.m Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. The Republican nominee won Wednesday after capturing Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, putting him over the...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Victory Sets Off Protests On Both Coasts
OAKLAND, Calif. — Demonstrators opposed to the election of Donald Trump smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire in downtown Oakland, California early Wednesday, as protesters swarmed streets...
View ArticleClinton Says US Owes Trump ‘Chance to Lead’
WASHINGTON — A day after Donald Trump, against all odds, won election as America’s 45th president, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday lamented that the nation proved to be “more divided than we thought” but...
View ArticleSeattle Area Students Plan Walk Out Monday
CBS SEATTLE– Students around the Seattle area are expected to walk out Monday in protest of Donald Trump being elected president. The demonstration follows days of nationwide protests, including...
View ArticleTens of Thousands Plan To Attend Women’s March In Seattle
SEATTLE (CBS) – Tens of thousands of people are gathering in Seattle the day after Trump’s inauguration to march in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, during which hundreds of thousands...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Inaugural Crowds, Does Size Matter?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says his inauguration will have “an unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout.” Organizers of a protest the next day call it the biggest demonstration in history to...
View ArticleTrump Acts To Advance Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dealing a blow to former President Barack Obama’s legacy on climate change, President Donald Trump signed executive actions Tuesday to advance the construction of the Keystone XL and...
View ArticleDemonstrators Across US Say ‘Not My President’
Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed Not My President’s Day. The protests on the federal holiday didn’t draw nearly...
View ArticleTrump Travel Ban Personal For Young Lawyer
SEATTLE (AP) – Washington state Solicitor General Noah Purcell has argued before packed courtrooms, but those crowds paled in comparison to the millions who heard him argue against President Donald...
View ArticleThe Latest: New US Travel Ban Blasted As Like The Original
SEATTLE (AP) – The Latest on Hawaii’s lawsuit and legal efforts by other U.S. states challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban (all times local): 1:55 p.m. Washington state Attorney General Bob...
View ArticleQuestion And Answers Regarding Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
SEATTLE (AP) – Some of the states that helped derail President Trump’s first travel ban are mounting efforts to block his second one, saying that while the new order applies to fewer people, it’s...
View ArticleTrump Donates First 3 Months Of Salary To Park Service
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is donating the first three months of his salary to the National Park Service. White House press secretary Sean Spicer handed an oversized check for $78,333.32...
View ArticleScott Admonishes Trump To Be More Careful On Racial Matters
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s lone black Republican urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid inflammatory racial rhetoric such as his statement blaming “many sides” for the violence at a...
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