Chris Mulick has worked for the Herald since 1998 and has served as the statehouse correspondent covering state government and politics since 2000. He works year-round out of the Herald's Olympia bureau on the state Capitol campus. Have a question? Send Chris an e-mail and he'll answer the best questions regularly.
I was dumping out my notebook at weeks end and look what fell out.
Once again proving that in politics no good deed is its own reward Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire and U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, sent out press releases last week to let the world know they were curbing campaign activity on 9/11.
The states General Administration department has posted a virtual tour of the Capitol, known here as the Legislative Building, on its website. Its filled with sights and descriptions of things I get to see routinely. Visitors routinely are awed by the building. And after nine years here I still think its pretty cool, too.
The capital press corps, in its own humble way, toasted another departing colleague yesterday, the Seattle Times Ralph Thomas.
When decorations start going up in stores the day after Halloween, as they did in some stores this year, and when ads on TV and in newspapers start advertising Christmas bargains well before Thanksgiving, that's too early.
I can perhaps understand it, given the economy, but my sympathy goes out to store employees, one of whom said to me a couple of weeks ago as Have a Holly Jolly Christmas was blaring out over the store's pubic announcement system, "By the time the holidays get here, I am going to be really sick of that song."
Small, fragile transplants from Oregon seem to have made a permanent home in the Tri-Cities.
For the second summer in a row, pine white butterflies appeared in Tri-City conifers during the last week of August. At least one butterfly expert said their repeat showing was a significant biological event -- the settling of a new species in the area.
The pine white butterfly -- neophasia menapia menapia -- amazed friends of small, fluttering things when it showed up around here last summer. The small, bright-white insect with black-lined wings had not been seen here, said James Dillman of Richland.
Here is this week's edition of The Back Page, in which the Herald sports staff recaps the Friday high school football action. This week, we look at the Southridge-Kamiakin, Kennewick-Hanford and Moses Lake-Chiawana games, as well as scores from throughout the Mid-Columbia.
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