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For those who missed it, a pilot reportedly furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building that houses federal tax employees in Austin, Texas on Thursday, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing ...

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Commercial airplane makers would lose aerospace tax incentives if they put more than half the final assembly of an aircraft family outside the state, under a bill that state Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Mount Vernon, introduced Monday....

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Aerospace companies would have to annually reaffirm their commitment to the economic well being of Washington in order to claim industry tax incentives, under a new proposal in the state House of Representatives....

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Aerospace companies would have to annually reaffirm their commitment to the economic well-being of Washington in order to claim industry tax incentives, under a new proposal in the state House of Representatives....

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Charleston County, S.C., gave Boeing a property-tax break of more than 60 percent to lure the company's second 787 Dreamliner assembly line, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported Saturday....

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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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Really, Jonathan? The worst imaginable outcome?Of course, I completely agree that a public option is what we ultimately need, and that the plan to mandate insurance without it amounts to more support of a corrupt and inhumane private health insurance...

topics: democrats, economy, government, health-care, liberal

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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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A reader writes in a letter:I have watched with a great deal of horror through the years how The Stranger tells people how to vote and how people do what The Stranger says and get themselves in worse mess than before.Dow Constantine is even more dang...

topics: democrat, democrats, elected, election, government

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As noted in yesterday's Morning News, King County will avoid cutting much bus service over the next two years. This is good, considering Metro was forecast a few months ago to cut nine percent of service overall (fewer buses and less service at fewer...

topics: suburbs, tax, transit