Zombie job creators: Zombies have become an election issue in Spokane. A Democratic candidate for the state Senate is a TV producer who says he brought jobs to Spokane by filming the Syfy Channel’s “Z Nation” there. The Republican incumbent says the jobs are temporary and subsidized by taxpayers.
The zombies, unable to find any brains between the two candidates, shambled off, hungry and disappointed.
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You’re going to have to walk a mile for that Camel after all: Reynolds American, the maker of Camel cigarettes, is banning smoking in its buildings. Reynolds said it would build an indoor smoking area for employees. Workers can also use electronic cigarettes.
Or they can take deep breaths of the smoldering scent of irony.
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Give me a break: A panel of citizens charged by the state government to advise it on the $8.7 billion in tax breaks it handed out to Boeing says the state first needs to develop the metrics to measure the value of the tax breaks.
It’s an improvement over state officials’ original plan of letting Boeing tell them when it was working.
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