Since Inauguration Day 2009, a firestorm of scorn has scorched the op-ed pages of the nation’s dailies extolling the evils of partisanship in Washington, D.C. as typified by “black hat” Republicans and their stubborn refusals …

Ordinarily I like my politics like my martinis, dry and not over-ginned. The business of setting policy is one that directly affects the lives of individuals, sometimes in life and death ways, and it …

Gregoire has indicated she will sign SB 6130 on Wednesday, just in time to do a little free-wheeling tax raisin’ and for Democrats to figure out how to legally kill off the I-960 spending restraint law while it sleeps, like a vampire story in reverse.

Just as a large part of Western culture’s great scientific leap forward during the Renaissance was little more than a relearning of earlier knowledge and theory of mathematics and the physical universe — or at least picking up the baton where it was dropped during the collapse of the Greek and Roman empires — the current revival of conservatives must also reconnect with lost knowledge.

By moving to suspend voter-mandated tax restraints, Democrats in the Washington state Legislature sent a clear message to the people: We are the governors and you are the governed, and there is no reciprocity in that relationship.

The voter’s shield against runaway government spending by the State of Washington, Initiative 960 is perilously close to temporarily losing its most crucial piece, the requirement that the state Legislature pass a two-thirds vote for measures to increase taxes.