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Local News - Local News - July 05, 2012
West Side influence acknowledged

Editor's Notebook
Linn Parish

Last month, as we reviewed questions for a Washington Business Survey that the Journal helped conduct, one question caught my eye and made me crack a grin.

The question asked people whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: King County has too much influence over policies that affect all of Washington state.

I chuckled and said sarcastically, "I wonder how that one is going to go."

Predictably, 88 percent of business readers in Eastern...


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