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from Capital Press
The West's Ag Website
Much of Washington’s agritourism industry will be sidelined this year under COVID-19 rules released Aug. 20 by Gov. Jay Inslee. The agritourism rules went into effect immediately and apply in the 34 counties that have progressed past Phase 1 in Inslee’s four-phase plan to reopen Washington businesses. Any farm that breaks a rule can be fined $10,000. Agritourism customers must wear face coverings and keep at least 6 feet apart. The rules ban activities such as wagon rides, haunted houses, playgrounds, farm equipment “exploration,” animal viewing, petting areas, paintball and campfires.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
A recent article in National Review suggests conservative politicians would be smart to advocate a carbon tax, enabling them to show they care about the planet while offering an alternative to the growth-chilling mandates beloved of the climate left. That is naive. Conservatives are pro-growth; hence, pro-energy and anti-tax. Progressives are anti-growth, hence, pro-tax and anti-energy. Touting carbon taxes would blur a basic distinction that is a critical political asset for conservatives. My main concern here, though, is not that a carbon tax is bad conservative politics but that it is bad public policy.
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from Headline USA
RIGHT BIAS, Media/News Company
A Washington state free-market think tank caught the Washington Department of Health inflating its Wuhan virus statistics. Instead of admitting fault, though, Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee denounced the group for promoting a dangerous “conspiracy” theory. Now, newly obtained emails show Health Department bureaucrats acknowledged overblowing official stats, even describing the Olympia-based Freedom Foundation’s findings as “true” and “correct.”
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Classical liberalism, as the economist Deirdre McCloskey argued in her trilogy The Bourgeois Era, was chiefly responsible for the Great Enrichment in Western Europe and North America. However its main tenets – including limited government, equality before the law, free trade and fiscal probity – are not the exclusive preserve of the West. Just look at the rise of Hong Kong. Another success story that speaks to the universal applicability and adaptability of classical liberal principles is Botswana. While by no means perfect, Botswana has outperformed the rest of Africa economically and, to some extent, politically. Other African nations would do well to learn from its experience.
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from KING 5 (NBC)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Seattle, Washington
Washington state says "belt-tightening" is essential as nursing homes struggle with coronavirus costs.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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