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Free `GC2G’ exhibit now cooler, with tablets!

Free `GC2G’ exhibit now cooler, with tablets!

Check out a cool new feature of our Grand Coulee to Grunge exhibit   — tablets!  Bilingual translations, great archival photos, drilldown information and more add to the experience of the popular exhibit in the Secretary of State’s lobby in the Capitol. Our Legacy Washington team now has five tablet computers available for office visitors to check out at the front desk to enrich their visit. The exhibit opened late last summer and comes down this October before going on the…

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What’s our next exhibit? Funny you ask

What’s our next exhibit? Funny you ask

Our month-ling Quilts of Valor exhibit was taken down earlier this week, so the walls in our office’s front lobby are unusually bare. But that won’t last for long. The Office of Secretary of State is putting the final touches on a new, privately funded exhibit to be unveiled in early September. It’s called “Grand Coulee to Grunge: Eight stories that changed the world.” The free exhibit, which will be displayed for a year before traveling around the state,  recounts…

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Farewell to Native exhibit, hello to Quilts of Valor

Farewell to Native exhibit, hello to Quilts of Valor

Staff carefully remove panels from the Native Indian tribe exhibit. The Office of the Secretary of State has packed up the Northwest Indian tribe exhibit and soon will be hanging the new exhibit, “Quilts of Valor,” honoring our veterans. The Northwest Indian tribe exhibit, created by the Washington State Heritage Center, part of the Office of the Secretary of State, will continue to be displayed throughout Washington state. Starting in August, the exhibit, “We’re Still, Here, The Survival of Washington…

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Native American exhibit leaving Capitol after June 14

Native American exhibit leaving Capitol after June 14

The first exhibit on Northwest Indian tribes ever displayed at the Capitol will be coming down after June 14, but will soon appear elsewhere in Washington for all to see. The exhibit about Washington’s Native Americans has been on display in the front lobby of the Office of Secretary of State for the past year. The free and privately funded exhibit, called “We’re Still Here, The Survival of Washington Indians,” can be seen weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m….

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Inslee budget: $1.4b in new revenue, mostly for K-12

Inslee budget: $1.4b in new revenue, mostly for K-12

The Battle of the Budgets has begun. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat in the third month of his tenure, unveiled his $34.4 billion budget blueprint in a lengthy televised news conference at the Capitol on Thursday. Headline: He would generate about $1.4 billion in new revenue by extending expiring taxes and by closing or reducing a variety of tax exemptions.  The new money would mostly go for education, a $1.2 billion down-payment on the state addressing a state Supreme Court…

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Hot off the press: New book on Governor John Spellman

Hot off the press: New book on Governor John Spellman

A new book about former Washington’s last Republican governor,  “John Spellman: Politics Never Broke His Heart,” is being launched by The Legacy Project  in the  Office of the Secretary of State. The author is Legacy Project’s chief historian, John C. Hughes, a former editor and publisher for the Aberdeen Daily World. He’s no stranger to storytelling; this is Hughes’ seventh book he has penned since accepting his position in 2008.  Among his other projects were biographies of U.S. Senator Slade…

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Heritage Center, election bills top Wyman’s wishlist

Heritage Center, election bills top Wyman’s wishlist

Resuming the Washington State Heritage Center project and enacting election improvements are the centerpieces of new Secretary of State Kim Wyman’s legislative package. Wyman unveiled her 2013 legislative agenda in her office Friday morning during a gathering with members of the Capitol Press Corps. Wyman introduced several division directors and most of her executive team during the informal get-together with the media. The Heritage Center, which would house the State Archives, State Library, historical exhibits, an educational center and other…

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100 years of women in WA Legislature

100 years of women in WA Legislature

                      (Images courtesy of Washington State Heritage Center and The Legacy Project) Monday’s start of the 2013 legislative session also marks the centennial of Washington installing the first female legislators. On Jan. 13, 1913, women entered Washington’s Legislature for the first time when Frances C. Axtell (1866-1953) and Nena Jolidon Croake  (1865-1934) took the oath of office along with 95 male colleagues in the House of Representatives. The two women…

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Gregoire unveils $34b budget & tax plan

Gregoire unveils $34b budget & tax plan

Gov. Chris Gregoire, in one of her last major acts as governor, has unveiled a $34 billion, two-year budget for state government, along with a tax package devoted largely to upgrading the K-12 budget. The Democratic governor, leaving office in January after serving eight years, laid out spending priorities for every sector of state government, including schools and colleges, parks, social and health services, prisons, the courts and Legislature, Puget Sound cleanup, and the departments of government.  She also released…

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Capitol event accentuates the positive

Capitol event accentuates the positive

The past several months have seen a deluge of negative campaigns as the 2012 General Election reaches its end next week. Secretary of State Reed is moderating a panel discussion this Thursday that focuses on positive politics and how it could influence leaders in local, state and national government. The panel will explore how positive politics can change and lead to better decision-making at all levels of government. The free event, which is the latest in the series of Brown…

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