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I-1366 forces state’s hand If the initiative passes, Washington’s sales tax rate will be cut unless voters are offered a constitutional amendment to require a supermajority on tax hikes. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Tim Eyman’s latest ballot offering will gauge how far voters are willing to go to restrict state lawmakers’ ability to raise taxes. If it passes Nov. 3, Initiative 1366 would trigger an economic consequence for the state unless voters are given the opportunity next year to put tougher rules for hiking taxes into Washington’s constitution. The measure would reduce the sales tax by a penny unless a long-desired constitutional amendment requiring a twothirds majority of the Legislature to raise taxes without a public vote is put on the November 2016 ballot. “This is not a new idea,” Eyman said, launching into a recap of all the times voters endorsed a supermajority requirement. “We
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Teacher Judy Dahlberg feeds a chameleon at her home in Machias on Aug. 11.
CALL OF THE WILD
It’s not easy to keep exotic animals as pets and many fall victim to their own popularity or become pests in an alien environment
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By Amy Nile and Kari Bray Herald Writers
MACHIAS — A menagerie lives in the tongue-and-groove pine cabin nestled behind lofty cedars and hemlock. Tortoises Hobbit and Dudley winter in the bathtub. They cede the space during the summer to a handful of leopard geckos. Brightly-colored veiled chameleons, Rango and Jewel, and bearded dragons, Puff and Tito, bunk in a bedroom. Sherbie, an albino corn snake, feasts on frozen mice
in the laundry room. The basement is home to Charlotte and Wilbur. She’s a tarantula and he’s a skink. Also living downstairs are three degu, an African clawed frog, four chinchillas, two swimming salamanders and an African bullfrog. Dozens of hissing cockroaches, millipedes and walking sticks crawl around cages. Lissy the wallaby and four bunnies hop around the wooded yard. Living on the five acres See EXOTIC, Page A10
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