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"Pro-Growth, Strong Defense, Virtuous Values, Business, and Stocks” Lawrence Kudlow
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871420
The Walla Walla Union Bulletin had this editorial on the Legislature's terribly habit of passing "title only" bills. They are bills that have no text, just a title (like "An act relating to public records disclosure"). Then, after some deal is cut in a back room, the Legislature "amends" ...
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871419
The City of Lakewood sent aggressive (intimidating?) discovery requests to a public records requestor. The Court of Appeals said that wasn't OK. NOTE: Michele Earl-Hubbard and Chris Roslaniec of Allied Law Group filed an amicus curiae ("friend of ...
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871417
The Tri-City Herald writes this editorial on the Department of Homeland Security's past practice of letting political appointees review FOIA requests and, apparently, involving them in the responses.
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871418
Jason Mericer of the Washington Policy Center writes this op-ed in the Seattle Times on the Legislature's woeful lack of transparency.
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871416
This editorial from The (Tacoma) News Tribune says it all.
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871415
Kim Bradford at The (Tacoma) News Tribune writes this blog piece on the penalty bill.
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871413
The Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Corrections can withhold prison surveillance tapes because they are law enforcement investigative records.
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871412
"Newly disclosed records and emails reveal a fourth investigation critical of Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer Dale Washam and indicate he worked in private to oust a high-level employee while publicly claiming he was doing no such thing." So reports The (Tacoma) News Tribune.
How do we ...
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871410
(Pardon the sarcasm, but some things are so absurd that there is no other way to communicate them.)
A financial melt down of state and local government has been averted.
The local government lobby and Attorney General Rob McKenna finally got what they said would prevent the world from ending: ...
A financial melt down of state and local government has been averted.
The local government lobby and Attorney General Rob McKenna finally got what they said would prevent the world from ending: ...
July 5, 2011, 10:18 am, 871411
The Yiddish word "hutzpah" describes the gall of someone who, for example, murders their parents and then begs for mercy from a judge because they are an orphan. Hutzpah is using a self-inflicted problem to try and get out of the consequences of it.
The (Tacoma) News Tribune perfectly ...
The (Tacoma) News Tribune perfectly ...