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Top green priority in the legislature: a fee on oil
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, not just cleaning up Puget Sound.
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Behind Weyerhaeuser's move to REIT-hood
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.
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A sense of wonderment
A difficult decade passes, reminding this observer of the many civil and political values lost and the opportunities squandered. But there's hope in all the progress made in the past half-century.
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New McGinnings: the police chief hunt
A few signs of how much the McGinn era, at least at first, will be a continuity regime.