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please resign from School Board Pat, you are not focused on kids anymore, or the Board. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
There are going to be some really great musical guests this Saturday afternoon at the market. Should be a really fun time. Shelly and Callan at 1 pm are a super awesome duo. The Balkan dancers should put on a real fun show too.
And the youth and teen Marimba groups from Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center put on quite... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
One night at a movie, $20 for two. Family of four, $35-$40. Add popcorn and a soda, it's really expensive. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The property is supposed to be listed for $2.2 million. It is assessed with a value of $1,081,554 as is. Property taxes now are $10,554.55. All Per Property Shark.
So if it gets the usual nifty MUPTE deal, we know what is being given up for the usual 10 years period.
What benefit is there for Eugene to house 184 ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wonder if a work camp concept would work. "Patients", work for the County while residing at the camp and receiving treatment - nutritious meals, stress management/coping skills to replace self medicating, vocational training, etc.
The County in turn receives 30 or so hours of labor a week in trade for treatment. The Co... | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Actually they do. Every once in a while they pull some of it out to pay for items like a new city hall. It's stuffed in the seat cushions far from the public eye. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I've several points to share on this topic that require more than a comment or two here, but this does merit responses, so here is one (more later):
1. Poor people commit more easily police-detectable economic crimes than do wealthier people.
E.g., if you are chronically unemployed & unemployable; homeless or only ma... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The way they're building these 1950's style housing projects, the student housing market will become a disappointment for these investors. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Incompetent? Really? Huh. Then maybe you ought to ask yourself how much more in dire straits we'd be in were it not for them? I honestly believe that were it not for them we'd have very few fish left in our rivers, lakes and oceans; the majority of our waters would be unsafe to drink or swim in; the smog problem in som... | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Ugly = penciling-out. If it were a nice looking building, it wouldn't be viable. | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Well Motley, this is an issue that I totally agree with you on. The Eugene City Government, school districts, and the County government will all be screwed. And the taxes after a great big expensive apartment complex is built on the land will be astronomically higher than what the taxes are currently at. 184 apart... | 0.3 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0 |
IF you were truly worried about oxygen and air quality, then you might take on the source of the pollution rather than talking about far away places you have no first hand knowledge of. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I enjoy challenging the advocates of sardine-style living conditions to live in a place like Capstone. I also challenge advocates of the "live up-stairs, shop and work downstairs" (making sandwiches, pouring coffee) without a car (you ride a bike or transit), to live such a life style.
Me, I enjoy my very livable and... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I am worried it could go further than just a peek. The role of men and women are already changing, not always for the better. Men are having a harder time knowing the limits. Especially with women encouraged to either start fights or fight back. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 |
Bribe the tribes cause they are rubes says Northern Dynasty/Pebble Partnership - play one community against another. For years!
I hope that mother earth lays down a 9.o qbelow lake Iliamna and the ash rains down from the mountains.
May the Sockeye run forever!
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These are the kind of cases (among others) that led to mandatory sterilization of men and women and "wayward teenagers" by the Oregon Eugenics Board for 70 years.
Some women are not good mothers.
Some men are not good fathers.
Society is helpless to determine who they are in advance and no legal way to keep them f... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I agree. The attendees could work in the coast range and learn forestry. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
But it's so much easier to cut payments to low income elderly Alaskans, do away with reduced property taxes for the elderly and disabled veterans, cut education and jack up rates on towns and cities. The current legilsature isn't interested in cutting back on tax credits and incentives that we can't afford for the oil ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This article would have a far more powerful headline if Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii weren't the #23, #6, and #1 LEAST white states in the country. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The city gives out these big tax exemptions because its the only way they can cram as many people as possible into the downtown.
During the 10-year tax exemption, the city forfeits general fund revenue which would have been use for services, while these are the same services that will be used (at our expense) by the o... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"Vickie Smith" Nice one!! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The moral arbiter here is a 2,000 year-old dead guy who apparently never wrote anything down…nor had anything whatsoever written about him during his lifetime. The source material is a book replete with moral contradictions and has been used to justify everything from mass murder to mercy. It appears to me that asking ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If you think that the public service unions like SEIU are going to let you replace their Union workforce with these folks, you have not been paying close attention. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All you have to do to advertise a business in Portland is somehow grab the flaccid imaginations of the Social Justice Crowd. Krantz probably can't believe her luck, receiving millions of dollars of free publicity.
PC has become the new PR. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
And the Lane County seat cushions produced the $800,000 per year pay bonus for the Lane County administrative staff. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Conspiracy Theory? Just a friendly "back at ya"! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I agree with you Bob.
I don't think any capital project monies from the state should go to cities that don't have a sales tax. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Apparently, "ever" began in 1981. Who knew that the world began with the advent of satellites? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kay, we spend more, insure less and pay more for drugs and treatment. True, we do spend more on our defense budget than the next ten countries combined, to include China and Russia.
As to your previous comment on redistribution I notice you do not have an issue with it providing you are getting the money. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sadly Portland really isn't better than this. "This," as a old timer who left a few years ago in disgust told me on her way out of town, "is the new Portland." If Portland were better than this, this wouldn't happen. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"You were saying that you were standing on Obama’s record." I never said or wrote that. Your lying is creepy and getting worse. You're like the guy who brings his share of foods to the potluck and still everyone hates him. Cut out the lying
- or go straight to holiday hades; do not pass go, do not collect $200. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(continued) Brief details of the progress of the case may be found by searching trial court cases by name for Val Henning at: http://courts.alaska.gov/search-cases.htm
Actual case documents, including the City claims and the Davis/Henning counterclaims for monetary damages, may be viewed in person or purchased from th... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
There is no question the credits helped strengthen exploration and production in Cook Inlet. The question is would a much lesser amount of credits worked? If I own an apartment that I’ve been having trouble keeping tenants because the rent is a $1000 a month which is the better course of action, lowering the rent to $5... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If the concealed guns on campus passes mustard can I also conceal carry the answers to the test? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
When will newspapers run a story about Rent Control and how most people in office will not support it, or won't disclose that they don't support it?
School Board member Steve Buel is one of the few who speaks and votes on behalf of social justice and students without a voice. I say he needs to do more than demand st... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
http://flip.it/ijyDw | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Boy Begich and his union-payback labor contracts gave many officers retirement options they couldn't refuse. Today's short comings are far more the result of Begich's signature that Mayor Sullivan's prudence. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
It is a shame that eating healthy costs more than the processed foods, or fast food restaurants. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This is a digression. But I note that if example, almost never criticized, determines what is appropriate, then numbers of members of Congress and legislators have done this for centuries. A significant fraction of legislators have done this, and it was not controversial for most of that history. Presidents and Gove... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I find it funny, that Pebble thinks that the EPA has been conspiring with environmental activists/advocates for years over the proposed Pebble mine. Why would they conspire? There is nothing to hide. If something is as bad for man, fish, water, air and land like the Pebble mine will be, you 'work together,' in any way ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The maximum is 5 years on this one. Works for me.
If something untoward did happen while he was incarcerated, I don't even think I could produce a crocodile tear, much less a real one.
This one truly deserves the 'eye-for-an-eye' sentence that is unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The county should turn it into a giant pot farm. I bet that would pay for the beds. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Theaters are a breeding ground for germs and viruses. The safest time to go is for the first matinee. All the nasty stuff dies-off between the last late show, and the first matinee the next day. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
Too late...they have BEEN your voice for over 40 years, and probably are the reason that you can STILL enjoy/live in a semi-clean environment... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
These ideas are a GREAT start. We need a lot more of this. The State is broke, and needs to start living like it. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unless it's a kid's show.
Then all those mobile little petri dishes will happily deliver the germ or virus de jour right to you for your pleasure! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you for being voices of reason and sanity amidst your colleagues. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In the longer term, climate change and population growth in the lower 48 is likely to reverse political priorities. If they do not care about the economy of Alaska per se, that may change when the larger national economy needs timber, minerals, or (in appropriate areas) places to migrate to.
It would be better if t... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Positive changes you say? With THE GOP bunch that is running? Hahaha. Good luck with that..... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Well, after this winter, I wouldn't expect this to surprise Alaskans... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This may be the first time I've ever agreed with Mayor Berkowitz, but the pension 'shift' really isn't a cut at all; rather, it's a debt that will be paid now by cities (homeowner property tax and sales tax) rather than state funding (oil revenue). Maybe it's a good idea; maybe it's not. But let's be clear: it's not a ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Everything we do to solve this problem is going to hurt someone. Get used to it.
For those that haven't actually looked at what it would take go to Plan4Alaska.com and play with the budget tool. It is a humbling experience.
Looking forward to ignoring all the ranting comments of folks who haven't done the math :) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
On the contrary more than two thirds of oil industry workers are Alaska residents. And the figure probably does not include a higher percentage in some of the support industry.
Industries such as commercial fishing(5 out of 6 Bristol Bay permits held by non-residents), seafood processing, seasonal tourism are majority... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No. This is crap and the Legislature knows it. Statewide sales tax now. Quit being such jerks and get the tax in place before tourist season. Bed tax, head tax, temporary higher sales tax on non-essentials, just for the tourist season. Renegotiate the credits for oil companies. Raise revenue. Quit messing around and do... | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
I tried the apartment life style for a year in Redmond, Washington and for another year over on Goodpasture Island Road.
Good to get back to a single family residence where my rent can't be arbitrarily increased at the whim of an owner or after the sale of the property to an investor who wants more return on invest... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gee, if we just had a similar training program for unemployed, homeless men. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oh..am well aware of unions and the power they wield...they would be somewhat challenged to provide a defense...when it is clear no lay off's are involved but by attrition only. Their position will be that it is still a loss of available union positions and we don't want them lost...why? ..., because we say so. Well so... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alaska’s Constitution can’t afford the ‘oil industry’s sweetheart deal’— Article 8, Section 2: “The legislature shall provide for the utilization, development, and conservation of all natural resources belonging to the State, including land and waters, for the maximum benefit of its people.” Les and David: ironicall... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 |
Yep, I've done it several times and it IS difficult, but not impossible. Cut all departments' budget across the board by 20% this year. Make the dept heads figure out where and how to cut. One idea I've heard is to shorten the state work week (non-emergency, obviously) to four days a week, giving everyone a 10% pay cut... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mr. Wohlforth's commentary appears to suggest that Alaska Natives are nothing but poor innocent victims of a racist justice system. His tone is extremely patronizing and I wonder if he is playing the "white man's burden" role here. This is the old Kipling concept that white man like him, must take care of the poor nat... | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0 |
When Alaska became a state it had to convince the United States it could pay for itself. For four decades oil has paid for our state. It is our obligation to tax ourselves and run a decent government to meet basic needs not taken care of by private industry. We need to do what other states do, and ask citizens to pitch... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Only problem is, many of the munis are broke too. Juneau in particular is hurting for so many reasons the least of which is certainly not the bazillion dollar whale sculpture with its very own park that is draining us faster than we can count. What a huge boondoggle and waste of money that thing is. Plus the new poo... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I am not a state employee but this is very short sighted thinking. What happens is good people leave their jobs for full time employment. Then we get incompetent people as civil servants. We have enough incompetence with elected officials, we need good employees getting hired for the real jobs. Government workers deser... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Legislators probably didn't like UAAs response to their open carry bill so this is a way for them to stick it to them. Phasing out the performance scholarship program till 2022 is just kicking the can down the road till the next election cycle. Pretty weak all around if you ask me. Proud to say I didn't vote for any ... | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Here is the exact quote "Obama’s record speaks for itself" lifted from your post. I was simply agreeing with you that it does speak for itself. It is, in my opinion, a record of disasters. On that I believe you are going to disagree. You seem to like the mess he made overseas. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Call it a shift if you want, at least it gets CUT from the state budget and placed on the local govt that created it. That in my view will be a great thing- enough with the local bloat too. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thanks to the writers! You reps who try to do the right thing are appreciated.Legislature needs to repeal SB21 and all credits. Impose a production tax per barrel. State auditors can not match wits with oil company lawyers. Production tax eliminates all cheating and requires little auditing. Alaska is being robbed. Cha... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The State is going BROKE. How Juneau spends its money locally isn't the issue here, we are discussing State budgets. I do agree that CBJ spends like drunken sailors on things they cannot afford- but hey, they keep hiking property assessments to keep up with their spending habits. The good people of Juneau who own prope... | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 |
what is being done to bring in additional revenue? The governor requested HB 252 to close loop holes in the cruise ship industry. This is estimated to bring in over 20 million a year. The legislature has done nothing on this bill. Instead they go after the easy targets. Since less than half of Alaska graduates even go ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pit college students against teachers and high school students. This is what republicans do when they still won't get rid of tax credits for big oil. Make the cities tax people more because republicans in the senate have zero courage and absolutely no leadership skills. | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
SAY goodbye to any and all state government assistance--revenue sharing etc ??LOOKS like the legislature-LEADERS cant see past their NOSES--still believing in the oil patch--hey the oilpatch is history and the legislature got to think -out of the box(oil-tank) and rely on the budget reserve(?) what its for---and GO GO ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Could it be all the scandals Hillary has created that switched voters to Bernie? Boy, there just isn't any good choice in the Democrat runners. Most Alaskan voters don't vote socialist. | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
Skunk, you make a good point about lawyers— I’ve felt (unfortunately) Alaska is set up to lose when the game is our lawyers against theirs— their lawyers write our laws. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wow you write about unreasonable bail without mentioning the state and federal constitutions which are violated every day in the courts by judges and they get away with it. The second violation of both constitutions is when judges require a "third party custodian". The bill needs to get rid of that requirement forever... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Does this apply to unorganized boroughs too? If not, it should in order to treat all citizens fairly and equal. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
END--CURTAIL---GOVERNMENT--OVER-reach----TRIBES --CAN govern themselves as they have done before incursion of foreign civilisations(government) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
If this is the Little Falls, Minnesota Robin Hensel, we have truly been blessed by her presence to support Psychotherapist Staggenborg.
If only I might be able to touch the hem of her garment, as they used to say in the Old Country. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
YES --GARA and Guttenberg you are on track---don't stop there ---PUSH !!--OIL industry priveledges MUST END---NOW !! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Not that I want harm to anyone, but...our state employees and legislators enjoy the highest paid retirement than any state in the nation. Some legislators get about $5000 a month plus FULL medical. Not an issue till this crisis, and the current legislators wanting to cut everything that helps the poorer alaskans but t... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Leave Bristol Bay be and may the fishers remember.
Never - Ever put the peoples of the bay between each other. Protect the land, stream, air, and sea from evil.
Sockeye salmon. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kicking the preverbal can down the road to the muni's. Make them the bad guys for increasing taxes. I don't understand the reluctance to use the earnings from the $60 billion in the bank to help fund essential services. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
When something threatens a public union member’s "Iron Rice Bowl" in a State where one is required to be a member of the public union even to have a governmental job at all and those same public unions are among the largest campaign contributors to the Democratic Party in that State, the odds of success, suck, so to s... | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
There's hope for our nation. What a fabulous project. Now focus on programs to "retrain" the homeless and high school drop-outs/gang members. You bet I'm dreaming!! Margaret Mead said it best: "Never believe that a FEW caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have." Now, then, where ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bigots! | 0.3 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you Sean Parnell for signing into law those "unsustainable" (your word) budgets. You had the line item veto power to stop this madness. Just think how much more the Permanent Fund could have earned if you had saved that money.
Now I bet the legislature wishes it had back that last $150 million it poured into t... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thanks Rep. Gara. You've always been an articulate advocate for Alaska on this issue.
We have a system so corrupt, so blatantly in violation of the Alaska Constitution that we have several choices.
1. We must overthrow the corrupt legislature this November. In a perfect world those who have sabotaged Alaska so bad... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 |
No one really believes that healthcare in the USA is the 31st best in the world. Continuing to quote this old contrived and politically motivated WHO number just makes you look silly | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
Wow, what a great idea. Tell you what, since we're all in this together, since my pay would be cut 10%, the legislature can pass a 10% income tax on all non-state workers too. Because I'm sure you wouldn't mind contributing 10% of your income.
Also, lets cut 10% of all other benefits you get from your employment, beca... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bernie Sanders is a principle-less neocon Israel first warmonger. Don't believe what he says ...believe what his record shows | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 |
Let it go. Let it go... Stop trying to discriminate. This isn't Alabama. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"Privatization is opposed by a coalition of liquor-sale contractors, beer and wine distributors and Oregon’s craft distilling industry, which fears that retailers won’t stock its products."
"Oregon’s proposal, backed by retailers such as the Fred Meyer chain"
It is always helpful to understand who is for and who is... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Now that the cuts are becoming reality let's migrate to my plan.
1. Put all State of Alaska Revenues into the Permanent Fund. With $52 billion in the fund, if we put in $14 billion the state has in savings, we would have $66 billion and if the fund earned 6% this year we would have $70 billion.
2. Write a new law rega... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Evans, who in his day job represents employers, introduced an ordinance last summer that wasn't about promoting non-discrimination policies so much as it was about defanging the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission.
That's more or less like defanging an elderly shih tzu, but the AERC is the only agency here in town... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 |
"And a surprising number of jobs now require a basic knowledge of algebra, or are made easier if the worker has that knowledge."
A bold assertion with not one example. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
It may seem to you that only the fat cats benefit the most from the tax cuts of Reagan and others ....which might even be true but have you ever stopped to consider that these are the only people left paying taxes or paying mot of the taxes? If you haven't considered it then you should because they do ... How do you cu... | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In other words, other people need to start living like it... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hoffman, Kelly, and McKinnon :"Somehow, we need to come to terms with the fact that the financial condition of the state of Alaska has changed. And everything has to be looked at and on the table.”
Everything, that is, except for: (1) size and cost of legislative staff, which has grown tremendously in the past 10 yea... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I found this piece short, sweet, and to the point. Everything she said was well thought out and true. Pay attention, Trumpettes! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
"A Democratic Island in a Republican Majority" And just two days ago I discovered that according to the Pew Research Center it was 40% Democratic/Lean Democratic; 40% Republican/Lean Republican and 20% neither.
http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/phoenix-metro-area/party-affiliation/ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
So you want a large number of employed, middle class people in this state to take a 10% pay cut and then pay a sales tax on top of that.
Yeah, that sounds like it will work... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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