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July 23, 2007

Monday Links 7-23-07

Hello, I’m Dan Brunell (that DAN Brunell, not DON Brunell) and this is your “Monday Links.” This a new feature on Olympia Business Watch where I bring you what you might have missed this weekend. So off we go…

- It just isn’t Boeing that booming... Microsoft surpasses $50 billion in annual revenue for the first time.

- Tim Eyman was strangely without costume as his measure, I-960, became the only citizen initiative qualifying for the November ballot.

- The only way they are getting those delicious Dick’s hamburgers away from me is when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers… King County to phase out trans fats.

- The only certainties in life are death, taxes and fines at Hanford.

- Joel Connelly manages to give Gov. Gregoire a backhanded compliment even as he throws a former PI editor under the wheels of a moving truck.

- Illumination on Washington’s ferry crisis? This makes me think twice before I take another date on my traditional Bremerton-to-Seattle ferry ride day trip.

- Well, as of today, there are more then 440 new laws on the books. If you want to find some reasons why your business needs AWB as your advocate in Olympia... All you need to do is look as some of the things that your legislature came up with this year.

Recommendation of the Week (other then to join AWB): Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite

I am a complete and total audiophile. I would be remiss if I didn’t give a recommendation or two. This is one Duke Ellington’s later classics, The Far East Suite. It’s hard to describe but imagine if you mix Ellington big band jazz with flavors from  the near, mid, and far east. Absolutely wonderful, especially Johnny Hodges solo on Isfahan and Rufus Jones’s drumming throughout. It is one of my preset “road trip albums” when I travel to eastern Washington, Oregon or whereever the grandeur of the landscape needs a grand soundtrack.

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Don't worry, Danimal. They don't make the burgers with transfats, only the french fries. And they suck anyway (http://seattlest.com/2007/07/10/counterpoint_di.php) Plus Dicks isn't a national chain with 10 or more storefronts. Don't worry, your fingers will remain warm and alive a bit longer.

Dick's fries sucking? That blasphemy!

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