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1 Former drug informant sees hope for legal status fade Local News
For Ernesto Gamboa, the Salvadoran who spent 13 years as a confidential informant for local law enforcement, the prospects of gaining legal status in the U.S. have grown increasingly dim. The U.S.
11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Lt. governor's son shot by co-worker in Kent; gunman then shot self Local News
The owner of a Kent auto-painting business shot the son of Lt. Gov. Brad Owen on Monday before turning the gun on himself after a workplace dispute. The man is a close friend of Owen's, somebody with whom he often hunts and fishes, the lieutenant governor said Monday.
11/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Gay-rights support stops at Cascades Politics
The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, show the challenge supporters of gay rights face in winning over all Washingtonians as they seek full equality.
11/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 'Everything but marriage' backers smelling victory Local News
The referendum to expand the state's domestic-partnership law was winning approval by nearly 2-to-1 in King County, where about 30 percent of the state's voters reside, and was also passing in other Puget Sound-area counties.
11/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Referendum 71 foes sue to raise donation limits Politics
With some major funding in the offing, the Family Policy Institute of Washington, through its newly formed Family political-action committee (PAC), filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tacoma late Wednesday.
10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Anti-Ref. 71 group sues to lift contribution limit, keep donors secret Local News
A Lynnwood-based organization that opposes the state's domestic partnership law and is working to defeat Referendum 71 has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tacoma seeking to circumvent campaign contribution limits of $5,000 and to keep secret the names of those who make smaller donations.
10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 The cost of expanding domestic partnership benefits Politics
Readers have been asking about the costs associated with Senate Bill 5688, the legislation that extends marriage-like benefits to registered gay and senior couples in the state. Referendum 71 is bringing the legislation before voters for approval or rejection.
10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 U.S. Supreme Court: All petition signatures secret, for now Politics
Names on all voter petitions in Washington state are blocked from release for possibly up to a year, hung up by a U.S. Supreme Court order Tuesday that keeps Referendum 71 signatures out of public hands.
10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 U.S. Supreme Court: Ref. 71 names to remain sealed for now Local News
In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered that signatures collected to get Referendum 71 on the November ballot should continue to be sealed until the court decides whether it will hear an appeal in the case — a process that could take up to a year.
10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Confused about how to vote on Ref. 71? You're not alone Politics
The measure will ask voters to approve or reject the most recent expansion of Washington state's domestic-partnership law, which extends marriagelike state benefits to registered gay and some senior couples. A vote on this might seem pretty straightforward: Approve Ref.
10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Justice blocks release of Ref. 71 names Politics
Constitutional-law experts scrambled to apply meaning to an order issued Monday by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, temporarily blocking the release of the names of those who signed Referendum 71 petitions, in what has become a months-long legal back and forth.
10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Release R-71 signatures, court says, but appeal planned Local News
Protect Marriage Washington, which collected the signatures to get Referendum 71 on the November ballot, said it will appeal Thursday's federal appeals-court ruling that cleared the way for public release of the names of those who signed petitions for the measure.
10/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Decision pending on release of names on ballot petitions Politics
The dicey question over whether the Secretary of State can release the names and addresses of those who signed petitions to get Referendum 71 on the November ballot is now in the hands of the three-member panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ref 71 will ask voters on Nov.
10/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Gates, Ballmer donate to R-71 campaign Politics
Coming on the heels of a $100,000 donation last week from Microsoft, the company's CEO, Steve Ballmer, and co-founder Bill Gates have each donated $25,000 to the campaign to retain the latest expansion of the state's domestic partnership law.
10/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Two men lead the push to undo gay benefits Politics
With no real plan, a scattered base and well-heeled opponents, two political activists many people have never heard of are scoring unexpected victories in a campaign to roll back domestic-partnership benefits for gay couples in Washington state.
10/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Ref. 71 opponents get $200,000 campaign boost Local News
Opponents of the state's domestic-partnership law, who until now had depended largely on small donations from retirees and housewives across the state, got a $200,000 boost this week from the local affiliate of a national conservative evangelical organization.
10/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Microsoft donates $100,000 to R-71 campaign Politics
Microsoft Corp. has donated $100,000 to Washington Families Standing Together, the campaign seeking through Referendum 71 to retain the latest expansion of the state's domestic partnership law, up for a public vote on Nov. 3.
10/6/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Stakes high in fight over gay rights Politics
Religious conservatives, who collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot and want to see it repealed, are telling people their vote will decide gay marriage in Washington state.
10/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Scramble to help UW graduate who's an illegal immigrant Local News
A week ago, Jorge-Alonso Chehade faced a dilemma familiar to many illegal immigrants: leave the U.S. and be banished for 10 years or stay and live as a fugitive.
9/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Bill in Congress would repeal Defense of Marriage Act Politics
Married same-sex couples throughout Washington state and elsewhere would be treated the same as married heterosexuals under a bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act that was introduced in Congress on Tuesday.
9/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results