The measure, which died in the Washington Senate last year, would fund stormwater projects. This year the barrel fee is recast as a jobs-stimulus bill and broadly applied to many cash-strapped cities...
Weyerhaeuser is close to becoming a real estate investment trust. For tax analysts and shareholders, forests are no longer about timber; they're about harvesting tax-advantaged money.
The parties are back in court this morning to revisit the federal government's unadopted plans to protect the river system's salmon, listed 15 years ago as endangered.
