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Pot money adds to haze around budget deal
Smoking pot is the easy part. Crunching the tax dollar predictions from that toking is hard. The estimates of state
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GOP senators fear Kelley will game pension system
Three Republican state senators are leery about the possibility that indicted State Auditor Troy Kelley might exploit a loophole to
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Low snowpack pushes search for changes
A bill to help prepare for future Washington droughts is waiting in the wings of the state Legislature. Underlining the
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Democrats revise their capital gains tax idea
Plan B for a Washington capital gains tax got the same reception Wednesday as Plan A did earlier. Teachers, school