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Sen. Rodney Tom Resolution Passed by the 48th LD 0

Sen. Rodney Tom Resolution Passed by the 48th LD

Senator Rodney Tom serves the 48th Legislative District in Bellevue.   He has recently come under criticism for helping Republicans take control of the state senate.  (See Democrats Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon hand control...

Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions 0

Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions

Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions In the latest incident of charter school fraud, the state of Oregon is going after a pair of charter school con men who reportedly scammed the...

Link: Secret and Lies of the Bailout 0

Link: Secret and Lies of the Bailout

From Rolling Stone’s Secret and Lies of the Bailout: Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, remembers a call with Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. “We need $700 billion,” they told Brown,...

Rep. Adam Smith voted against the budget deal 0

Rep. Adam Smith voted against the budget deal

Rep. Adam Smith voted against the budget deal, saying, it make “getting to a reasonable ten-year plan far more difficult by making permanent 90 percent of the Bush Tax Cuts. By not allowing those...

The budget deal reinforces GOP positioning on taxes 0

The budget deal reinforces GOP positioning on taxes

The Wall Street Journal points out that by retaining tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000, “Democrats aren’t just accepting, but embracing and extending, at least 98% of the 2001 Bush tax cuts.” Throughout...

Revelations about the out-of-control US security state 0

Revelations about the out-of-control US security state

I’m reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William R. Arkin. The book catalogs the mind-boggling number of secret and semi-secret government agencies and programs...