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TVW has launched a video voters' guide on their website featuring eight minute video statements from statewide candidates. The videos began airing on television Monday and will continue to run through the August 19, 2008 primary.

Nearly every candidate gave a statement, though notably absent are state insurance commissioner candidates Curt Fackler (U-Spokane) and state treasurer candidate Chang Mook Sohn (D-Federal Way), both of whom cited scheduling conflicts for their absence.

Austin Jenkins, the NPR political reporter who has been filling in as host of TVW's "Inside Olympia" along with David Postman, has been tapped to become the show's full time host.

Jenkins will be taking over for long-time host David Ammons who took a job as Secretary of State Sam Reed's communications director earlier this spring.

The show, which has been on for 11 years, has weeklyin-depth interviews with the state's political leaders.