Posts by Bill Lyne

So the legislature found a bunch of money in the couch cushions and now it looks like everybody might get to go home on time to start what promises to be a rollicking 2012 election season.  Both the House and Senate Democrats have proposed sane budgets that don’t include any contentious revenue/referendum items.  A special…

An Open Letter to Nick Hanauer Our friends over at Publicola have recently been hosting a rousing debate between big bucks Democrat Nick Hanauer and WEA President Mary Lindquist on teachers’ unions and K-12 schools.  Here at the blog, we have a hard time resisting sticking our nose into issues we don’t know much about,…

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but here in Washington, tax exemptions never die.  There are tax breaks hanging around that are so old and so irrelevant to the well-being of the state that only a lobbyist could love them. On February 11, the Washington State Senate took a big bipartisan step toward moving our…