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…

We Don’t Do No Stink’in Sports Reports, BUT

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Sunday, August 28, 2011 EST.Our First (and the editorial board hopes last) Sports Commentary: SeahawksWe watched the Seahawks pre-season game last night. Our second this season. It was held in Denver. The Ha…

Dog Daze, New Normal, Political Stew

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Friday, August 26, 2011 EST. Dog Daze of Summer: What Is The New Normal? As we sit in the daze of a micro-minipulated stock market, an uncontrollable hurricane, and the mounting shortage of cash to pay for…

PI’s Joel Connelly Acknowledges Tax Tolerance Limit in Seattle?

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Friday, August 19, 2011 EST.Pigs Are Flying, There’s Ice In Hell, “Never” Really Does Not Exist!My good and longtime friend, Joel Connelly questions the amount and appropriation of King County’s growing car …

9,000 People Set State Transportation Policy

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Thursday, August 18, 2011 EST.9,324 Decide The Future Of The Viaduct Tunnel Project. There are 9,220 in Fife Washington. Keep that in mind! There are 379,450 registered voters in Seattle. Twenty-five per…

WSDOT Creates Answer To Sticky Tolling Question

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Article by WashingtonStateWire. Published on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 EST. WSDOT: The Great Karnak Of Transportation-Tolling Impact On Low-Income Folks…”NO PROBLEM” Johnny Carson was the great Karnack. Ed McMahon would state an answer or a fact, an…