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Jason Mercier

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    State Sen. Jim Honeyford Walks Out of Olympia Legislative Session In Protest of Secrecy (Video)

    Honeyford​Last year, the legislature's secrecy movement involved title-only "ghost bills" being heard and approved in committees, with the wording of the bills added later. Sen. Mark Schessler, R-Ritzville, says such clandestine lawmaking leaves both the press and public without any idea what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    State Liquor Sales: Will Legislature Act to Tap Booze Money, Loosen Up the Control System?

    ​It's finally time to get serious about reforming the state-controlled liquor business, and after a strong but fizzled challenge to the state monopoly by two would-be privatizing initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, the state Senate Labor Committee will huddle today to talk change. According to Jas ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    State Agencies Pour Anti-Freeze Into Tight Budget Loophole

    ​It's finally time to get serious about reforming the state-controlled liquor business, and after a strong but fizzled challenge to the state monopoly by two would-be privatizing initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, the state Senate Labor Committee will huddle today to talk change. According to Jas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Chris Gregoire's Spending Freeze Unfrozen: Computers, Trucks, Travel Given Exemptions

    ​As Gov. Gregoire prepares to unveil her latest solutions to the state's budget shortfall today - perhaps extending her statewide spending freeze - the state Superintendent of Public Instruction's Teaching and Learning Division is winding up a two-day meeting in Renton at a cost of $20,000 for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Bill Revamps Booze Sales; Will It Be Bottled Up Again?

    ​If you've ever lived in, say, California, and been able to run to the corner store for, say, a bottle of Old Throwup, then you might also say this is a good idea: Two state senators are proposing to scrap the state-run liquor store system by 2012 and let the free market go at it. Tim Sheldo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Auditor's Cuts: Your Vote Revoked

    If it costs a penny to learn you are wasting a dime on every dollar you spend, is it worth it? It wasn't to the state legislature when it approved the state's latest budget, cutting almost 75 percent of the performance audit funding going to state auditor Brian Sonntag's office. That has steamed the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Not Spending Enough Time Squinting At A Computer? Try Fiscal.wa.gov

    If you don't have enough websites saved on your favorites list, try adding the new Washington State Searchable Budget page, fiscal.wa.gov. The new website is a result of SB 6818, sponsored by Sen. Eric Oemig in collaboration with others. According to the billing, and a press release from the Washi ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2005

    The Cost of Secrecy

    A citizen pursues meaningful monetary punishment for King County's failure to disclose public records.

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    787 Hiring Outsourced

    A foreign-owned firm gets a state contract.

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Airbus America

    The European plane maker wants to build aerial tankers in the U.S. So Washington state is wooing Airbus to locate here, as it did with Boeing, right? Right? Wrong.

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Buzz

    The European plane maker wants to build aerial tankers in the U.S. So Washington state is wooing Airbus to locate here, as it did with Boeing, right? Right? Wrong.

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    The State's Two-Timing Consultant

    Taxpayers paid Deloitte Consulting $715,000 to help woo Boeing—which just happens to be a $5 million Deloitte client.

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