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Spokane County Commissioners unanimously adopted a resolution opposing a local income tax December 14. Spokane County is the third county to act, joining Franklin County and Yakima County as well as 11 Washington cities with local income-tax bans, including Battle Ground, DuPont, Granger, Kennewick, Longview, Moses Lake, Richland, Spokane, Spokane Valley, Union Gap and Yakima. From the Spokane County resolution: “Board of County Commissioners of Spokane County opposes the imposition of a l...
On November 29, 2021, at 8:32 p.m., Columbia County Sheriff's Office Deputy Riley Conahan was off-duty and shopping for groceries at the IGA. While shopping, Deputy Conahan saw Jessica Wallingford in the store. Deputy Conahan knew Wallingford from warrant lists and photos as circulated by the Sheriff's Office, and knew that Wallingford had ten active warrants out of five different jurisdictions. While still at the store, Deputy Conahan called Columbia County Dispatch to have an on-duty deputy...
A. F. Branco...
It’s true that my steer is all-natural I’ve dispensed with all vaccines and drugs Not one pesticide is poured on his hide He’d be lonesome without all the bugs! The lice are his own peanut gallery The ticks and the heel flies, too. He scratches all day while they nibble away But it does give him something to do. I’ve no use for antibiotics. For those drenches and potions and pills. He’s had a rough time, but now doin’ fine. Though he’s pore as an ol’ whippoorwill. He’s had rickets and doubl...
The opening briefs were filed yesterday in the capital gains income tax lawsuit. Included was a declaration I submitted to the court detailing a decade of my research on this topic with source emails from state revenue departments across the country, public records from WA’s DOR and a letter from the IRS directly confirming that a capital gains tax is an income tax. Here are some of the notable points the plaintiffs’ brief makes: • “Graduated taxes on personal income have been unconst...
A. F. Branco...
I took a trip to the museum of natural history. It was a fascinating place: a taxidermist's showcase. A dog heaven, what with all the prehistoric bones. But as I walked through the halls and stared at the infinite variety of creatures that stalked the earth, I began to feel uneasy. I started seeing familiar faces looking back at me. There stood the reincarnated remains of Stegosaurus. He was twenty-five feet long, had a hump in his back, big spikes on his tail and a skull about the size of a Spa...
By Ag Funder For many investors, farmland was not on the radar as an investable asset class until earlier this year, when it was revealed that the largest owners of U.S. farmland were none other than Bill and Melinda Gates. Many were speculating about Gates motivation for the acquisitions was it part of his larger sustainability strategy? As it happens, Gates says these investments are, in fact, not connected to the climate. This might have surprised some – even the most savvy investors. But to those familiar with farmland, it’s easy to see...
This came across the transom from the Internet, from which everything is true, dontcha know. There is a smattering of truth to it, although just about every generation, looking back, may say that the decade or two in which they survived the bumps and scrapes of childhood and adolescence, were simply, irrefutably, The Best. It seems to closely describe how Baby Boomers, the generation I am a part of, grew up. We survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. Thankfully for me, not the case. They took as...
Most would admit it was an unusual location to put a chain in the first place. Not that it didn’t look at home amongst the rotting posts and rusty headgate, but there it was. Miles and his wife decided their little place could carry a few more cows. It was a good year on the Montana high line but bred heifers were high. So they agreed that buyin’ yearlin’ heifers would be the ticket. They could select a good sire, synchronize the heat cycle and breed them artificially. They bought forty head...
I recently sent the legislature a public records request for the internal caucus discussions concerning the Governor’s emergency powers. I’ve received an initial batch of records with more to come in the coming weeks and months. Of note from the first installment of public records was this email exchange between Rep Rude, Rep. Walen and Rep. Springer (Note: All emails referenced available on request). On September 3, Rep. Rude sent an email to all House Democratic lawmakers with the subject lin...
A. F. Branco...
“There’s only one thing worse than eating next to a left-handed person, and that’s heading for him. It’s like trying to screw the male end of a garden house into the matching threads on your stock tank drain,” so spoke Bob to Allen, two fair-to-middlin’ team ropers, both fives, in the prime of their addiction. The equivalent of two-pack-a-day ropers. “Yeah, team ropin’s gone to hell,” answered Allen. “Used to be one guy had an arena and twelve guys came to his place to rope. You got in good pra...
The cost of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs has increased 5.9 percent since 2020 and more than 15 percent since 2019. A lawsuit recently filed by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office would have us all believe that is because of a “conspiracy to inflate and manipulate prices” in violation of the Washington Consumer Protection Act and Washington antitrust laws. Despite how things might appear, there is no conspiracy. Food prices have increased substantially because of a series of misfo...
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“’Twas a matchup made in Elko for the cowboys in the know Called the Rough and Ready Knock Down Finals All Ranch Rodeo. Now the Texans entered up a team they thought could never lose When they bet their reps against the Jordan Valley Buckaroos. You could tell from where they hailed if you put ’em up for bids, All the buckaroos wore fancy scarves and Amish lookin’ lids While the Texans wore their jackets for the brush down in the draws And them twenty dollar roll-yer-own, cheap Guatema...
Last month the Attorney General filed a response to the capital gains income tax lawsuit. The trial date for this case is scheduled for February 4, 2022. There were a couple of interesting statements from the Attorney General’s brief. Below is a quick compare and contrast of the statements from the Attorney General and the facts about capital gains income taxes. Attorney General: “Defendants deny the assertion that ESSB 5096 imposes an income tax, and deny that Plaintiffs’ understanding of in...
To the editor, I read with interest the column by Connie Schultz in USA Today entitled, "Vaccinating Children from Polio to Covid. I was one of those children in 1954 to stand in line for the sugar cube polio vaccine. Huron, South Dakota, a small town, 8,000 people. We gathered at Huron Arena, the largest venue in town. The populace turned out en masse, We serpentine through the Arena for hours. When my father got off work, he came looking for us and joined the line. There was no question in...
I had just finished loading 184 seven-foot steel T-posts, old ones, by the way, in my pickup and was unloading a mere 24 bales of hay from the front section of my gooseneck stock trailer. It was a hot, humid afternoon in early fall when the dead braches begin to stick out of the cottonwood greenery, and the garden starts goin’ to heck and no one cares. I could almost smell the cumin from Ramon’s #6 Combination Plate being distilled in my sweat from lunch earlier. Then I saw the blue box. The...
To the editor, I am writing in support of Blue Mountain Station. We visited the BMS Coop last summer before purchasing our home in Dayton. I was happily surprised to find a coop let alone one that offers wonderful meals. Experiences the Coop and meeting Val made Dayton all the more inviting. Since then, we have enjoyed the other unique businesses at BMS including Mama Monacelli's. Blue Mountain Station is a community resource bringing people together in celebration of food, music and local...
The legislature worked hard to keep voters from weighing in directly on the new capital gains income tax with a laughable emergency clause to prevent our right of referendum. Though some call non-binding tax advisory votes also laughable, voters will nonetheless get a chance to voice an opinion on the new capital gains income tax. The Seattle Times editorial page and Tax Foundation recently highlighted Advisory Vote 37 on whether to repeal the new capital gains income tax. From the Seattle...
To the editor, Columbia County Needs Positive, Nonpartisan, Inclusive, Qualified Candidates I received a flyer identifying "Columbia County Conservatives" (CCC) endorsing Conservative candidates for Dayton City Council, Port of Columbia and Dayton School Board positions. This political group professes that over the 200+ years since our country's founding, the US has done remarkably well living up to the goals improving the human condition, free from rule by a person, or body, not beholden to...
It was a severe case of vegetable defamation, the makin's of a landmark case of harassment and abuse. The plaintiff, a Miss Parsley was demanding compensation of one Paul Pierre Potato and, to-be-specified produce. "So how do you plead, Mr. Tater?" "Not guilty but let me relate I'm a victim of mass inflammation,au gratined and smeared on a plate, laid next to a lecherous cutlet whose gravy kept touching my cheese. It was all I could do to keep silent. Then I felt the promiscuous peas. Nudging...
