In August I attended a picnic put on by Alpha Supported Living for their residents. They held the picnic at Crossroads Community Park (a fabulous place behind Crossroads mall.) The…
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Economic and Revenue Forecast
(Originally posted 9/17/09) I serve on the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council for Washington, and today we had our quarterly “Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors” meeting. The state economist makes…
Information Services Board
I serve on the Information Services Board, (ISB) a group of high-level state and private sector people who review and approve the state’s investment in information technology. Specific projects that…
Interesting Presentation on California’s Education Funding Issues
California’s issues are in many ways similar to Washington’s. Doing a constitutional re-write to allow the locals to carry the costs of education would be interesting, and his solution would…
2009 Session Notes – Tax Policy
(I orginally posted this on a different blog in April 2009. I am consolidating into a single presence and am re-posting here. ) A number of key tax policy bills…