The Tea Party? Not for me, thanks. But I am outraged as the next person by abuse of public trust. How about a $300,000 luxury party boat purchased by the good folks at NOAA. Or a Snohomish County executive who traveled widely with his mistress on the public dime (see [continue reading . . . ]
[updated Feb. 25, see below] Is the U.S. economy finally out of the woods? Stock investors seem to think so. The time-honored (but relatively narrow) Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks is up by more than 14% since Nov. 25. The much broader Standard and Poor’s 500, covering America’s [continue reading . . . ]