WASHINGTON (AP) - Heavy rain and high wind gusts didn’t do anything to help throngs of travelers making their way to be with family and friends for Thanksgiving, as airports reported delays and traffic jams clogged major thoroughfares.

DWashington governor s border plan welcomed (Whistler Question)
But State Department official sounds note of caution on proposed pilot project avid Burke dburke@whistlerquestion.com A pilot project being proposed by the State of Washington, testing the feasibility of having enhanced driver s licences serve the same purpose as passports or biometric passcards at the U.S.-Canada border, received a generally positive response from U.S. and Canadian officials

Capitol Chat: Tony Overman, The Olympian photographer
Moderator: Welcome to The Olympian’s Capitol Chat. I’m your moderator, Assistant Managing Editor Dusti Demarest. Our guest today is Tony Overman, one of The Olympian’s award-winning photographers.

Capitol Chat: John Skeen, managing partner, Patricia Bliss & Co. accounting
Moderator: Welcome to The Olympian’s Capitol Chat. I’m your moderator, business reporter Rolf Boone. Our guest today is John Skeen, managing partner at accounting firm Patricia Bliss & Co. He’s here today — about two-and-a-half weeks from the filing deadline — to answer readers’ income tax questions.

Thrill-seekers, CIA is looking for you
WASHINGTON - The CIA has scrapped its ho-hum test that steered job applicants toward mysterious careers and devised one that’s cloaked in jest.

Capitol Chat: Washington Labor & Industries Director Gary Weeks
Moderator: Welcome to The Olympian’s Capitol Chat. I’m your moderator, political editor Brad Shannon. Our guest today is Gary Weeks, director of Washington’s Labor & Industries Department. He’s joined by public affairs manager Steve Pierce.

Water sources strained
LACEY - Explosive growth has left Lacey so short on water that it must buy 1 million gallons a day from Olympia to avoid a citywide development moratorium.

Democrats aim to enact more 9/11 safeguards
WASHINGTON - Democrats poised to take control of Congress say they’ll work to implement the unfinished business the 9/11 Commission recommended to better protect the United States from terrorists. But it won’t be easy.

Nominee sought airstrikes, files say
WASHINGTON - In 1984, Robert Gates, then the No. 2 CIA official, advocated U.S. airstrikes against Nicaragua’s pro-Cuban government to reverse what he described as an ineffective U.S. strategy to deal with communist advances in Central America, previously classified documents say.

Hip resurfacing system gains ground
MILWAUKEE - For three years, Jim Nord came up with simple solutions to deal with the excruciating pain in his right hip.

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