Estate Tax Uncertainty Unsettles Small Businesses

News Team | June 29, 2011

Shannon Bream, Fox News | 6-29-2011 The estate tax has been a part of the United States revenue system since 1916, and has soared as high as 77 percent. Over the years, it’s become a complicated issue for many small, family-owned businesses. That’s because when an individual dies, what he or she leaves behind is [...]

China eyes Canada oil, US’s energy nest egg

News Team | June 26, 2011

Rob Gillies, Associated Press | 6-26-2011 CALGARY, Alberta – In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs. China, with a growing appetite for oil that may one day surpass that of the U.S., is ready to spend the dollars [...]

GOP Governors Are Showing the Way

News Team | June 25, 2011

Bob McDonnell, WSJ op-ed | 6-25-2011 State Republicans are tackling the issues voters want addressed. That will be a major asset for the party’s presidential nominee in 2012. Democrats say otherwise, but Republican governors and their records will be a major asset to the GOP in 2012. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s monumental achievement this [...]

Judges sharply challenge healthcare law

News Team | June 8, 2011

David G. Savage, LA Times – Washington Bureau | 6-8-2011 Reporting from Atlanta— A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year’s healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional. Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal [...]

FCC Agrees to Take ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Off the Books

News Team | June 8, 2011

Stephen Clark , FoxNews.com | 6-8-2011 Under GOP pressure, the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to strike from its books an outdated yet still controversial regulation of political speech on the airwaves known as the Fairness Doctrine. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a letter to a House Republican leader this week that the agency’s [...]

Redistricting Delays 2012 House Races

News Team | May 15, 2011

Cristina Silva, Associated Press | 5-15-2011 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Heck has been running for re-election since he won in November, trying to fend off unrelenting attacks on his five-month-old voting record as the Democratic Party has saturated his Las Vegas district with billboards, phone calls and mailers……….Read More

Washington state tells Kucinich to stay home

News Team | May 13, 2011

Rachel Rose Hartman | 5-12-2011 The idea that Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich could relocate to Washington state to beat redistricting challenges doesn’t appear to be sitting well with some people who live there. “Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich can just stay in Ohio, thank you very much,” The Olympian’s editorial board wrote Wednesday. “Washington state [...]

Best/Worst States for Business

News Team | May 5, 2011

J P Donlon, Chief Executive.net | 5-4-2011 More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business. The charts and articles in this special report show how each state fares on the factors most essential [...]

State Senate honors military, intelligence agencies for raid killing Osama Bin Laden

News Team | May 4, 2011

Jordan Schrader, The Olympian | 5-4-2011 The state Senate today passed a resolution not exactly celebrating Osama Bin Laden’s death but “experiencing a sense of relief” that his days of planning terrorist attacks are over. Here’s the text of the resolution, which honors the military and intelligence agencies that helped bring about Bin Laden’s demise. [...]

How state budgets are different

News Team | April 15, 2011

Jordan Schrader, The Olympian | 4-14-2011 The state House has advanced a spending plan authored by Democrats, and the Senate could approve its own bipartisan plan as soon as Friday. Next comes the negotiations. With just 11 days left in the scheduled legislative session in Olympia, there are major differences to work out between the [...]