Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Outgoing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing a novel tax on personal wealth above $100 million in hopes of plugging a budget shortfall and averting cuts to education, mental health services and police. The tax would apply to about 3,400 residents, Microsoft founder Bill Gates among them, and bring in $10.3 billion over four years, Inslee, a Democrat, said Tuesday. No other states, and only a few countries, have taxes structured the way Inslee is proposing, according to the Tax Foundation, a...
The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities. In a new report, the Biden administration said those cultural, spiritual and economic detriments continue to pain the tribes, which consider salmon p...
