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Yes! Just what the state needs: more scandal. The FBI has launched an investigation into "questionable donations" from the PMA Group accepted by Washington Dems Norm Dicks and Patty Murray. It's no secret that (dirty) money greases the wheels of everything in space and time, including politics, but it's demoralizing to hear about this on the heels of all the other wtf-gates we're reading about these days. This is the Obama era! Everything is supposed to be ducky!

Whitman College: Jeffrey Sachs, economist and author

It looks like supporters of a NASCAR track in Kitsap County made some progress this week after selling state Reps Adam Smith and Norm Dicks on the whole thing. This News Tribune article makes it seem like those two are chugging the Kool Aid:

Last month, you remember, there was all this hoopla over the notion of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, thanks to its inclusion in a budget bill. Thanks in large part to public response, and to 20 Republicans who were able to suss out what "wildlife refuge" means, that provision failed.