Despite hard times in Olympia, environmentalists have crafted a way to have their projects funded, and share the goodies with legislators desperate for revenue.
The measure, which died in the Washington Senate last year, would fund stormwater projects. This year the barrel fee is recast as a jobs-stimulus bill and broadly applied to many cash-strapped cities...
Weyerhaeuser is close to becoming a real estate investment trust. For tax analysts and shareholders, forests are no longer about timber; they're about harvesting tax-advantaged money.
