Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Friday, April 29, 2011 EST.The Rest Of The Story: OIL I get about thirty-two miles per gallon average in my Nissan Versa. I bought it during the last time retail gas hit four bucks. What do you drive? Anyw…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Monday, April 25, 2011 EST. A Whole State of Rodney Dangerfields               What do you call it when you double the tax rate on travel agents…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Friday, April 22, 2011 EST.At the end of the session when you stand on the fourth floor of the capitol, and you are all alone, when everyone is gone or on the third floor, groveling for the last vote they wo…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 EST.Why The State Needs To Get Out Of The Liquor Sales Business, Now   1.     There is nothing compelling about the state monopoly of hard liquor sales othe…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 EST. The Quiet Before The Storm, Wednesday Odds and Ends Taxes: The Senate Budget is out. It won’t be about the Senate budget or the House. It may not even be about the documen…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Monday, April 11, 2011 EST. Legislative Staff On Strike, 20% Raise Demanded Or they Won’t…What? HB 2041 Joe Fitzgibbon dumped in a bill the first of the Month. The 31st of March to be exact. Either you m…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Sunday, April 10, 2011 EST.What Ails This Nation   In his Sunday editorial in the Seattle Times regarding Net Neutrality, Ryan Blethen put the bottom line on top and framed the discussion as follows:&…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Thursday, April 07, 2011 EST.How cute. There is a bill regarding “Additive transportation funding” introduced today. It’s HB 2053. When I first saw it I thought it was something you put in your gas tank. It’…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Thursday, April 07, 2011 EST.When you put up a post on a blog you never know if anyone, anywhere will read it. So when the email starts rolling in it means two things. First, someone is reading the stuff, an…

Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 EST.Let’s burn diesel to chase an endangered species, so we can kill it and eat it (salmon). Let’s hide the real cost of a barrel of oil in our national defense budgets as we spend …