We Bargain, They Collect: HB 2041 Why?

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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…

What Ails This Nation?

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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:&…

Of Spin, Terms And Obfuscation: Fees And Taxes

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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’…

Good News, I’m Getting Emails About Firewalls, Bad News Some Are Offended

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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…

Broadband Is A Utility, Not A Privilege Of Location. And Other Crazy Stuff

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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 …

Can You Mainline Taxes? Can You Freebase Fees?

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Sunday, April 03, 2011 EST. Budget Debate: To The Untrained Eye It Makes Sense, Others Not So Much I have personal acquaintances who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. I guess alcohol is a drug, anyway. Unt…

We Know What – The Question is How Much?

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Monday, March 28, 2011 EST.What Would You Do for a Million Dollars?   We’ve all played the game.  Whether it’s a million or a billion, we’ve thought about the line of demarcation that we draw in ou…