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President Barack Obama plans to kill an effort to return astronauts to the moon but will boost NASA's budget by $5.9 billion over five years, as he points it in a new direction, the White House confirmed to The Associated Press Thursday....

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NYT:As the Obama administration slowly unveils its global AIDS plan, the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and f...

topics: budget, obama

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The livestream of Gov. Gregoire's press conference is useless get some more bandwidth, please, TVW but the Seattle Times seems to have gotten an early look at what she's proposing.Eliminated completely: The state's Basic Health program and state assi...

topics: budget, tax, taxes

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Her answers for how to deal with the state's $2.6 billion shortfall, streaming live here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

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State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36) filed a bill yesterday in the state house that, if passed, would legalize the possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana. Moreover, it would tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol thereby helping sa...

topics: budget, representative, senate, state-house, state-rep

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The Washington State Bar Association, the body of 33,000 attorneys licensed in the state, endorsed a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would reduce the penalty for marijuana possession currently up to a $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail to ...

topics: budget, senator, tacoma

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When Dubai Is Begging for a Payment Plan: The rest of the wobbly world freaks out.Save the Washington Budget: Play Keno.Sorry!: Irish Catholic Church apologizes for priests having sex with children, then for protecting/hiding priests having sex with ...

topics: budget, carbon-footprint, obama, soccer, tacoma

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First there was the story of how some unhappy 43rd District constituents labor in particular are threatening to work against House Speaker Frank Chopp when he runs for reelection next year. Then there was the video of Chopp explaining himself to upse...

topics: budget, house-speaker, senate, taxes

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Budget airline easyJet has withdrawn almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of protests over its use of Holocaust memorial sites as a backdrop for a fashion feature, the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday....

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The Seattle City Council looks ready to raise parking fines by $4 this afternoon. They've got a full docket, including several bills intended to balance the anemic budget. This bill, which raises parking infraction fees across the board, is one of th...

topics: budget, city-council