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Articles by Don Brunell
Our initiative process needs to change | Don Brunell
Our initiative process needs to change | Don...
By Don Brunell • January 15, 2012 3:52 pm

Would you buy a new car or a new house without knowing how you’ll pay for it? Of course not. But Washington voters do something similar every time they approve a costly initiative without specifying how it will be paid for.

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The electric chickens come home to roost | Don Brunell
The electric chickens come home to roost |...
By Don Brunell • December 31, 2011 10:44 pm

For years, energy experts warned us that regulations and policies that reduce the supply of affordable conventional energy would result in higher prices for American families.

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Stories of hope shining all around | Don Brunell
Stories of hope shining all around | Don...
By Don Brunell • December 19, 2011 1:44 am

With a bad economy, political bickering in our nation’s capital and daily news coverage of raucous protests here at home, it may seem harder to get into the Christmas spirit this year.

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Some joy in Olympia despite budget news | Don Brunell
Some joy in Olympia despite budget news |...
By Don Brunell • December 11, 2011 1:13 am

There is a brighter side to Christmas this year, despite the weak economy and lawmakers bickering over how to patch the $2 billion hole in the state’s budget.

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Lessons from Canada | Don Brunell
Lessons from Canada | Don Brunell
By Don Brunell • December 5, 2011 1:17 am

Just about the time the Congressional “Super Committee” declared failure, our national debt clock rolled past $15 trillion. Even as the discussions, co-chaired by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., ground to a halt and Congress left the Capitol for Thanksgiving, the debt clock kept ticking.

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Farmers still give America the edge | Don Brunell
Farmers still give America the edge | Don...
By Don Brunell • November 27, 2011 10:19 pm

How about some good news heading into the holidays? It comes from our nation’s farmers and ranchers.

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America has decision to make on energy sources | Don Brunell
America has decision to make on energy sources...
By Don Brunell • November 13, 2011 9:21 pm

President Obama says he will delay until 2013 a decision about the $13 billion Keystone pipeline, which would carry Canadian oil to Gulf coast refineries.

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Deadbeat Illinois is a warning | Don Brunell
Deadbeat Illinois is a warning | Don Brunell
By Don Brunell • October 30, 2011 10:27 pm

The dictionary defines “deadbeat” as someone who deliberately avoids paying their bills. It’s an unflattering label, but for Illinois, it’s now their unofficial new nickname: the Deadbeat State.

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World competition for American factory owners | Don Brunell
World competition for American factory owners | Don...
By Don Brunell • October 3, 2011 1:01 am

In today’s dog-eat-dog world, change is constant and accelerating. Other countries are stealing our factories and jobs and are hungry for more. That is the new reality.

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Federal regulations costing billions to the cost of doing businesses | Don Brunell
Federal regulations costing billions to the cost of...
By Don Brunell • September 24, 2011 8:59 pm

Recently, President Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to delay implementation of a new rule that further reduces industrial ozone emissions —smog — under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

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Restoring confidence is the top job | Don Brunell
Restoring confidence is the top job | Don...
By Don Brunell • September 11, 2011 10:50 pm

Looking at the opinion polls, it’s easy to be depressed these days. Three out of four likely voters say America’s on the wrong track, consumer confidence has tanked, investors are sitting on the sidelines and job growth has stalled.

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Looking at the private sector for help with the economy | Don Brunell
Looking at the private sector for help with...
By Don Brunell • September 4, 2011 11:21 pm

President Obama and the newly appointed Congressional federal debt reduction committee will need to look under every rock to find ways to save money and do things differently. Now, they’re getting some help from the private sector.

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Uncertainty keeps cash on the sidelines and unemployment high | Don Brunell
Uncertainty keeps cash on the sidelines and unemployment...
By Don Brunell • August 12, 2011 1:53 pm

At the same time President Obama and Congress were locked in combat over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, leaders of state manufacturing associations from across America were meeting right here in Washington.

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Time to connect the dots on oil development | Don Brunell
Time to connect the dots on oil development...
By Don Brunell • August 8, 2011 2:49 pm

Americans live in an idealistic world where, no matter what happens, we’ll still be able to go home at night and switch on the lights or pull into a filling station and gas up the family SUV.

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Lawmakers should take care with health-care exchange | Don Brunell
Lawmakers should take care with health-care exchange |...
By Don Brunell • July 3, 2011 10:50 pm

Later this month, state legislators will begin discussions about designing and implementing a health-care exchange.
If experience is a guide — and it is — Washington lawmakers should tread very carefully because recent events have shown how perilous such efforts can be.

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All fuel sources have good and bad points | Don Brunell
All fuel sources have good and bad points...
By Don Brunell • May 22, 2011 1:21 pm

By 2025, the TransAlta energy facility in Centralia must replace coal with natural gas to generate electricity, but Washington has no gas to offer. Fortunately, we have neighbors with an abundance of gas — natural gas, that is — to ship to us.

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Tax amnesty a bright spot in Washington state’s dismal economy | Don Brunell
Tax amnesty a bright spot in Washington state’s...
By Don Brunell • May 15, 2011 11:41 pm

State lawmakers in Olympia received a much-needed boost recently in the form of $320 million in new tax revenue, the result of a new tax amnesty program. The amnesty, first proposed in 2009 by State Auditor Brian Sonntag, was vigorously championed by the Association of Washington Business as a way to settle disputed tax assessments.

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Gas price point to tapping oil reserves at home |  Don Brunell
Gas price point to tapping oil reserves at...
By Don Brunell • May 1, 2011 2:35 pm

As the price of gas passes $4 on its way to $5 a gallon, the finger pointing in Washington, D.C. has reached a frenzy as politicians rush to place blame. “Wall Street profiteers!” “Speculators!” “Big Oil!”

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Fixing the federal health reform law | Don Brunell
Fixing the federal health reform law | Don...
By Don Brunell • April 3, 2011 6:21 pm

The projected cost of Obamacare is going up — again. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now estimates the 10-year cost of federal health reform at $1.45 trillion, a $40 billion increase in just the first 12 months.

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Hiking fees are a tax by another name | Don Brunell
Hiking fees are a tax by another name...
By Don Brunell • March 25, 2011 4:49 pm

Washington voters have made it more difficult for state lawmakers to hike taxes by requiring a two-thirds majority to do so.

The Legislature’s response? Increase fees, instead.

Gov. Chris Gregoire has ordered state agencies to cut their budgets and streamline their operations, saying, “State government cannot conduct business as usual.” But instead, some agencies want to offset their agency’s budget cuts with higher fees.

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