Saying that untaxed cigarettes continue to be sold on the Yakama Reservation, the state is terminating its agreement legalizing Yakama cigarette sales to non-tribal members."Unfortunately this agreement is just not working," said state Department of Revenue Director Cindi Holmstrom said in a news release this…
The national assembly of Bhutan has banned lawmakers from toting their laptops into the capitol, Thomson Reuters reports, "for fear they might spend their time playing computer games."Lawmakers in the Himalayan kingdom, which until recently was a monarchy, overruled objections by lawmakers who said the…
Bumperactive, an online bumper-sticker maker ($4.50 each), is trying to design Barack Obama bumper stickers for every state.There's "'bama for Obama" (Alabama, yes), "GumbObama" (Louisiana), a Cheeseheads-themed "Obama Favre" for Wisconsin and, for Arizona, "Re-elect Senator John McCain 2008." (Emphasis on "senator.")In this field of…
-A budget shortfall of $3 billion? The Tri-City Herald's Chris Mulick does the math and concludes that two ballot measures likely to go to voters in November would cost a combined $313 million -- enough to push the state's two-year expected budget shortfall of $2.7…
From the print paper:Walk up the stairs above Frankie's bar in Olympia, and it's like stepping back to 2005.Bar patrons are talking over tall mugs of beer, nothing unusual about that. But there are ashtrays – ashtrays! – on the tables. And a slight smoky…
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