13+ hour ago   (1133+ words) OLYMPIA – Washington state’s refusal to levy personal income has made its tax code an outlier for more than 90 years. With two months until the general election, public employee unions and some of the state’s wealthiest residents have raised millions in…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (22+ words) The Spokesman-Review Page designer: John Allison Other Section Fronts From Today's Paper Past Pages from Business...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (454+ words) Federal assistance can be a great thing, but does little for those who cannot access it, said Franklin County wheat farmer Andrew Schafer. Schafer left his multigeneration family operation Thursday to attend a roundtable discussion with Farm Service Agency Administrator…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1431+ words) Farm Service Agency Administrator Bill Beam, left, and agency state administrator Patrick Bell, right, listen to regional agricultural leaders in a roundtable discussion Thursday at the Spokane Hutterian Brethren Colony in Reardan, Wash. (Nick Gibson / The Spokesman-Review) The wildfire that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (561+ words) Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called on Group of 20 nations to accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence as a way to enhance growth, urging the world’s largest economies to expand data centers and other infrastructure to support the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (983+ words) SEATTLE – After a Washington state bill aimed at regulating data centers’ electricity use died in the last legislative session, state utility regulators have picked up the effort. Earlier this month, the commission held a workshop where utilities, tech giants, consumer…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1687+ words) Leslie Goeres, a 37-year-old Seattle entrepreneur, has been house-hunting in Nashville, Tenn., and expects to move by October. The attraction? Tennessee doesn’t have an income tax, while Washington will levy a 9.9% “millionaires tax” on household income above $1 million, starting in 2028. Goeres…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (800+ words) OLYMPIA – While there appears to be agreement that stalled trade negotiations between the United States and Canada and the subsequent announcement of additional tariffs will add friction to the relationship between the two countries, Washington lawmakers diverge on whether it’s…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1450+ words) Year after year, the federal government has spent more than it collected in taxes. Each annual shortfall increased the national debt, slowly at first and then by leaps, defying warnings of an inevitable reckoning. Now, the reckoning may be at…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (841+ words) It’s the economy, stupid. Political strategist James Carville coined that phrase during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential run against George H.W. Bush to remind Democrats to focus on pocketbook issues, but some analysts said that logic can also be applied to…...