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March 9, 2009 - 08:22 am
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Legislature is halfway; Here's a partial update with more to come

By Joe Turner

I'm writing a story for Sunday's print edition of The News Tribune, but it won't be nearly as long as this. (Unlimited space on line.) I'll be updated many of these items and adding more as the House and Senate continue to pass or kill bills through Thursday.

BY Joseph Turner
joe.turner@thenewstribune.com

Budget and taxes: The state now faces an estimated $7.7 billion deficit over the next 28 months. Gov. Chris Gregoire has proposed a no-new-taxes budget. Senate Democrats say they will unveil they budget proposal sometime after the March 19 revenue forecast. The state is getting about $3 billion of help from Uncle Sam, but the Legislature will have to make deeper cuts than the governor did in her proposal.

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March 3, 2009 - 03:26 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Seattle still hopes Legislature will ride to its NBA rescue

By Joe Turner

House Bill 2281: Relating to the visitor destination campus act of 2009.

That's what they call a "title-only bill." Please read it. It says almost nothing. It's what lawmakers do when they can't reach agreement about what to do about something, but they know they just might reach agreement later on. And just in case they do reach agreement, they pass a bill that has only a title to meet some self-imposed deadline for taking acting. It makes things easier down the line. (They basically write the rest of the bill (under the title) later on.)

Anyway, that "visitor destination campus" is code for "Seattle Center and Key Arena.

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February 19, 2009 - 06:36 pm
NEWS FEED: Sound Politics

The "Stimulus" Package Will Help Poor Folks

Poor folks including Paul Alllen. Billionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers. And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he's also...

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Wed, 04/16/2008 - 19:13

Murray and Cantwell join the call to delay Sonics vote

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Washington's two U.S. Senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, have followed the lead of their stateside Democratic colleagues by calling on the NBA to postpone a vote on whether or not the Seattle Sonics are allowed to move to Oklahoma City at Friday's NBA owner's meeting.

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