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| Written On: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Written By: The Everett Herald Editorial Board |
Show us someone who was surprised by Washington's failure to make the cut for federal Race to the Top education money, and we'll show you a dreamer who probably still thinks the Mariners can make the playoffs.
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| Written On: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Written By: The Seattle Times Editorial Board |
The Seattle Times editorial board opposes Initiative 1098, which would create a state income tax in Washington.
BILL Gates Sr. — father of the famous one — recently dropped $400,000 into the campaign to convince Washington voters to saddle themselves with a state income tax. On Aug. 3, the Se...
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| Written On: Thursday, July 29, 2010 Written By: The News Tribune Editorial Board |
It would be giving Washington way too much credit to say the state was an also-ran in Race to the Top.
“Pathetic wannabe” would be more accurate.
Last year, Gov. Chris Gregoire pulled Washington out of the first competition for $4.35 billion in federal education money. The money was pu...
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| Written On: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA— Choosing Washington’s Supreme Court justices is among the most important decisions voters will make in the 2010 elections. With many laws passed by the Legislature and through the initiative process ending up before the Supreme Court, voters need to educate themselves on the justices who si...
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| Written On: Friday, July 02, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn A. McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA — The Association of Washington Business today applauded the efforts of employers and Washington state citizens who helped qualify two key ballot measures for this fall’s ballot.
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| Written On: Friday, June 18, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA— The Association of Washington Business is endorsing Chief Justice Barbara Madsen and incumbent justices Richard Sanders and Jim Johnson in their re-election campaigns for the Washington Supreme Court.
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| Written On: Friday, June 11, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA— Thurston County Superior Court Judge Carol Murphy ruled Friday that the ballot title for Referendum 52 should include language informing voters that, if approved, the measure will extend the state’s recently imposed tax on bottled water.
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| Written On: Friday, May 21, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA— Citing a need for reform of the state’s workers’ compensation system, the Association of Washington Business today endorsed Initiative 1082. The association’s board — and an overwhelming vote of its more than 7,000 predominantly small business members —supported the endorsement.
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| Written On: Thursday, May 20, 2010 Written By: Jocelyn McCabe, APR |
OLYMPIA— The Association of Washington Business has granted early political endorsements to a pair of challengers running for the state Legislature, as well as more than three dozen incumbent lawmakers with pro-business voting records.
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| Written On: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The state House has approved a $680 million tax package that would shrink tax exemptions, collect more money from smokers and service businesses, and extend the sales tax to new types of purchases.
The 52-45 vote, which came in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday after about five hour...
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Governor Chris Gregoire held a pre-Sine Die news conference this morning.
Here are highlights:
She said she won't let lawmakers adjourn without passing a "jobs" package and sending her an education reform bill designed to make Washington more competitive for federal "Race to the Top" ...
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Voters are worried about jobs, taxes, and government spending. Democrats will finish with mixed messages, time spent doing favors for political allies, and successes that may be hard to explain to a worried electorate.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown wants voters to weigh in on the idea of an income tax on high earners.
In a blog posting on Thursday, the Spokane Democrat suggested that the Legislature pass the Senate Democrats' temporary three-tenths-of-a-cent increase sales tax increase...
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There’s an all-too-easy-to-violate maxim when covering politics: Don’t fall for the conventional wisdom. Alas, I recently did so when, at the start of the legislative session, Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, basically ruled out a sales tax increase to help close the (now) $2.8 billion budget shortfa...
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Scott Brown’s remarkable victory in Massachusetts changed the national political conversation. It also introduced even more budget uncertainty in Olympia. That’s because Gov. Chris Gregoire had hoped for nearly $1 billion from the health care bill derailed by the election of Senator 41.
Earl...
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Jimmy Smith points to an angry scar running the length of his stomach. "I got some stuff dropped on me," is all he offers as explanation. Smith, a cast member on the History Channel reality show Ax Men, is giving a tour of his mangled body in an online video called "Jimmy's Scars." He goes on: "It t...
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Officials in Washington state recently announced that workers' compensation premiums will increase an average of 7.6 percent in 2010 despite calls from business leaders to lower costs amid challenging economic times.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to unveil a job-creation proposal next week that could include four or five tax incentives for businesses to help hard-hit areas of the state.
Gregoire, a second-term Democrat starting her sixth year in office, said in a short pre-session interview Monday that she an...
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For the first time since Steve Fabre entered the restaurant business in 1981, his profits have shrunk this year.
Though his volume has held steady through aggressive promotion and price cutting, the amount he takes home after all the bills are paid at his two restaurants, one in Ruston and th...
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Senate Democrats describe their health-reform bill as a Christmas present for the American people. In reality, it is a lump of coal for U.S. taxpayers.
Fortunately, there is still time to exchange this “gift” for health reform that doesn’t increase the deficit, expand the bureaucracy, increa...
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