Proving the press corps doesn't take the interim off, Chris Mulick has a nifty piece of investigative reporting in the Tri-City Herald on the loss of "a major economic development score for the state" -- 400 new jobs, and possibly 625 current jobs, to neighboring Idaho. The PI also picked up a version of the piece.
Focusing mostly on intriguing back and forth between project proponents and the Governor's office, the story says a lot about the sometimes chilling effect of our state's legendary permitting process and peculiar environmental politics on our economic competitiveness.
