At work, I get a lot of phone calls from sales representatives. They’re always trying to sell stuff of course, but lately they always ask, “So, how’s business?”
Fine, I say. Sales are steady, profits are slightly up. What do you hear from your other customers? “Oh, most of them are not doing that great. You know, Macy’s and Amazon are doing all right, but most of the little guys are struggling.”
Sleepy voters; it's time to wake up again. The school levy machine is gearing up in the Tahoma school district, and school officials are looking for $125 million to construct new schools and remodel others. That sounds like a lot, until you learn that Kent just passed a school levy last year that will collect around $240 million, and that's just to keep the schools operating.
Our First Amendment got a major test recently, when the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s reversal of a multi-million dollar judgment against the Westboro… Continue reading
