Chad Taylor, the publisher of The Reflector, stated for decades, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled that taxing net income from any source was an income tax.
But earlier this month, the …
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4/17/23
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Close to 2,000 Good Fridays and Easter/Resurrection Sundays have been celebrated since God’s son gave His pure, holy life to pay our infinite sin debt on a cruel cross, was laid in a cold tomb, …
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4/17/23
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There has been a concerted, focused effort for more than 50 years to normalize LGBTQ behavior. But this strategy exposes its inherent weakness: Something that must continually be normalized is, by …
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The blood from all the children killed by gun violence is on the doorstep of all Republicans.
Your party’s failure to recognize that the proliferation of guns in America is the cause of …
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A troubling theme has emerged this past legislative session that should concern all Washingtonians regardless of political affiliation. The majority party in the state House has continually voted …
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By Peter Abbarno
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4/17/23
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In Olympia, we’re in the last few weeks of the legislative session and attention is turning to the state’s budgets. I’m getting lots of questions about those budgets, so …
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By Jim Walsh
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4/17/23
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A troubling theme has emerged this past legislative session that should concern all Washingtonians regardless of political affiliation. The majority party in the state House has continually voted …
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By Peter Abbarno
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4/13/23
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The story is the stuff of legends: someone suffers a cardiac arrest during a basketball game. Thanks to the nearby AED and CPR, the player’s life is saved.
Except this time …
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By The Battle Ground Education Foundation
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4/10/23
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Drugs in our state are clearly more lethal than firearms. Just look at King County, where 83 people were fatally shot in 2022, but more than 1,000 people fatally overdosed.
With that disparity in …
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By John Braun
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4/10/23
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On 10 occasions, Washington state residents have voted down proposals to create income taxes in Washington state and, until Friday, the state constitution was always interpreted to prohibit the …
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By Chad Taylor
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4/3/23
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Neighbors, be wary of political attack ads currently seen on local TV channels. The ads try to cast doubt about our just elected Congresswoman, who assumed office little more than a handful of weeks …
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Over the past month, not only has my family had to deal with hospitalizations, wind storms and downed trees, bitter cold, bad roads, and deaths of loved ones, we’ve also had to endure …
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4/3/23
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Here comes another money grab.
The Washington State Supreme Court has failed Washingtonians, by agreeing to uphold the constitutionality of the state’s capital gains tax. This is yet …
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4/3/23
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Americans suffer from a federal government that has shut down much of our fossil fuel industry. Elite climate hypocrites travel the world in private jets pushing their hysteria for more money while …
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Clark County residents shouldn’t pay for Oregon’s transportation projects. Yet, that is exactly what Oregon is demanding. They want expensive tolls to drive on Oregon freeways and new …
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3/27/23
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The no-new-taxes operating budget proposal introduced in the Senate this session is a welcome turnaround.
To be clear, there is no more need for new taxes this year than there was in either 2019 …
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By John Braun
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3/27/23
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The Reflector recently covered the closure of Grace Lodge, a women’s recovery home in Battle Ground, that is due to close on April 30. I am a small business owner, and an active community …
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3/20/23
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I would like to respond to Carley Meuchel’s letter to the editor in the Feb. 22 edition of The Reflector.
In that letter, Meuchel stated the COVID pandemic was all about control and taking …
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After trying for more than a dozen years to impose a carbon tax in our state, legislative Democrats succeeded in 2021. That’s the now-infamous session which also gave our state a new income …
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By state Sen. John Braun
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3/20/23
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Washington’s housing affordability crisis hurts every corner of the state. We’ve all heard stories. Nurses and grocery store employees can’t afford to live where they work. Young …
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