Elway: Plus Or Minus 5% And A Sales Tax?

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 EST.Can’t Tax The Rich?  But We Can Tax The Poor?The recent Elway poll has disclosed a statistical majority seems ready to vote for a sales tax increase. Is there any more re…

Oh We Need A Football Team: Third Week?

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 EST. Football, Whining and Non-CapitolStuff Stuff The editorial board of WSW allowed me one comment about the Seahawks. That was three games ago when they were playing poorly an…

Let’s Fix the Leak — But There is No Requirement for a Balanced Budget

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Saturday, September 17, 2011 EST.And Don’t Give the Executive Branch Any More Authority! The news after the forecast meeting is interesting. A few Saturday observations are in order. How m…

A Name, A Rose By Any Other…"The Great Recession?"

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Friday, September 16, 2011 EST.What’s in a Name? We all know that certain words or phrases rise and fall in popularity and usage, especially among politicians.  “Stimulus” is out.  “Job creation” i…

Good News, We Are Only, About, Kind Of $1.4 B Short

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Thursday, September 15, 2011 EST. It Is Comforting To be A Little Off, If It’s True People should admit when they are off the mark, and other people should be honest about long term trends in revenue for t…

Forecast: Not Good

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Thursday, September 15, 2011 EST.Forecast Forecast Why wait until the forecast is out to forecast? The way things are going my mom and I can get as close as these linear extrapolators (sic). Economists, ar…

9.11.11 Ten Years, Pain By The Numbers

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Sunday, September 11, 2011 EST.9.11.2011  The Numbers   This journalism stuff is new to me. Some say blogging isn’t even journalism, so they know less than I do. But, what would we be and who would…