Despite hard times in Olympia, environmentalists have crafted a way to have their projects funded, and share the goodies with legislators desperate for revenue.
An archeological dig followed the finding of Native American remains, from the village Tse-whit-zen, during a state Department of Transportation project.
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.
