Posts by Bill Lyne

Governor Gregoire faced the press last Wednesday and told them that her 2011-13 budget proposal didn’t reflect her values, but that the voters had spoken, she had heard them, and she was “honoring” them with her all-cuts budget. Being the mostly unreconstructed lefties we are here at the blog, we might have chosen to say…

Our new favorite administrator here at the blog is University of Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward. Mr. Woodward, a Bayou State native who followed Mark Emmert from LSU to UW, created quite a brouhaha last week when he stated the obvious, saying that the University of Oregon’s Nike-funded athletic program is first-rate while its state-funded academic…

Along with whatever surprises the latest election may have brought, it did reaffirm the age-old verity that Money Talks. Various corporations spent over $36 million to defeat any measure that would have provided any new revenue to the state, and they hit a home run each time. Not the least among these corporations were the…