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…

You have to look pretty long and hard to find something today that costs the same as it did twenty years ago. One of the prevailing myths about college is that its cost has skyrocketed over the years. Whenever a middlebrow rag like Time or U.S. News & World Report turns its attention to higher…

Here at the blog, we’re all about public service. So as ballots begin to arrive in mailboxes, we’re happy to tell people how to vote. There’s a lot of direct democracy happening this time, with a veritable cornucopia of initiatives on the ballot. The blog recommends: NO ON INTIATIVE 1053: Tim Eyman’s handlers have caught…