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Author: ed itor

Government / Taxation

Theft and Sacrifice

In today’s Seattle Times Floyd McKay reports that one of the retired generals calling for rummies resignation was struck by the “lack of sacrifice and commitment on the part of the American people,” excepting military families and closes his opinion piece with But all in all, the upper and middle classes don’t show up in these figures nearly as much as they show up on college campuses across America. We don’t sacrifice either wealth or lives if we are well-off. In fact apoteketreceptfritt.com , if we own defense-industry stock, we make money off this war. Think Halliburton. An honest administration...

Education / Seattle

WASL Has Some Real Impact

Thanks to the WASL the Seattle School District is doing part of what it should have always been doing: One in four sophomores in Seattle Public Schools has failed so many classes that the district has “reclassified” them as freshmen. Nearly half the sophomores at Rainier Beach High School and about one-third of the 10th-graders at Cleveland , Chief Sealth and Franklin are now considered freshmen. The 827 students districtwide can remain with their peers in classes, sports and other activities but must make up the credits in night or summer school in order to graduate on time. The hold...

Legislature / Washington

Full Time Legislature?

Well, swecker’s full time legislature proposal doesn’t rise up to Carl’s level of support for me: Just to show how bi-partisan I am, here’s a Republican bill I support. Nope, I still haven’t seen a republican bill I support. Sen. Dan Swecker made his pitch for a full-time Legislature on Thursday and, although the plan isn’t going anywhere soon, he did find some receptive listeners. … “I would like to see the Legislature get more proactive in getting involved in the nitty-gritty details of running the state ,” he said. What might this really mean? Let’s look at one aspect...

King County / Seattle / Transportation

Southwest May Move Headquarters

Southwest Airlines may move its headquarters from Dallas: Southwest has hinted that Dallas is a less-than-ideal city for its administrative offices because it’s inconvenient to move its people there for meetings. Southwest chief executive Gary Kelly has previously said that if the carrier were picking a new headquarters from scratch ohne-rezeptkaufen.com , Dallas wouldn’t make the first cut because of the Wright restrictions. Southwest is Dallas’ fifth-largest taxpayer, contributing $15 million last year. It provides 5,000 jobs and its activities at Love Field create $2 billion to $3 billion in economic activity, said Ron Ricks, the carrier’s top lobbyist. If...

Economics / Government / Taxation

Your Tax Dollar At Work

I’ve got to remember to read the whole article if the headline or picture catches my eye! Ten days ago the Alaska Airlines salmon plane was plastered all over the papers. For instance here is the Seattle PI article and here is a picture of the plane. Well, Alaska Air has had interesting paintings on its planes for may years so when I saw this picture I thought: “Wow, they’ve gone a bit overboard with this but it does look pretty cool.” And turned to the next page of the paper assuming that this was Alaska Air marketing to the...