Scott "The Piper" St. Clair, Journalist
Scott St. Clair - The Piper - comes to EFF after a 25-year career as an independent executive search consultant. Before that, he worked both sides of the collective bargaining table for a major forest products firm and a local union. Armed with a law degree and his bagpipe - a dangerous combination under any circumstances - he delights in advancing the cause of freedom and liberty.
Articles by the Author
The long, blue-uniformed arm of the law
Husky and Cougar football: Your government at work
Bail out Hyundai while we're at it?
Nixon says no - won't be the one for new King County post
Mary Margaret - You're kidding, right?
Two for the price of one versus one for the price of two
No bailouts for Detroit's Big Three!
Port of Seattle's own audit finds fraud, corruption by officials
Press coverage? We don't get no stinkin' press coverage!
Can we get a mulligan on that?
It's a small legislature after all...It's a small legislature after all...
The Big Three Bailout Bad Penny
What it's really about...Christmas, that is...
Chumps and chiselers - Steamed are you?
Banks get bailout bucks, but small businesses are blown off
The Stimulus Package: How much for who, what, where, when, why...
Washington Legislature Seeks Selective Repeal of First Amendment - Is It 1984 Yet?
Bootlegged soap - End the war on clean dishes
State to sell naming rights in desperate effort to raise funds
Bailing out newspapers next in line?
Vancouver Columbian stiff-upper-lips possible foreclosure woes
King County to pay monster-sized damages for another public records violation
Jack Kemp, July 13, 1935 - May 2, 2009
Fed "loses" trillions, and I didn't even get no lousy t-shirt!
Obama taps Second Circuit's Sonia Sotomayor for SCOTUS
Washington State Legislature heed this warning: As California goes, so goes the the nation
State official to travel upscale to gay Paree - Ooh, la la!
McDermott earmarks funds to Seattle's most exclusive club
Oregon's sneaky Legislature and how far it wants to go to confuse voters
Disaster looms for state budgets across the country
Labor to take its ball and go home - take that Dems!
Take two aspirin and never call me again - Healthcare in 2015
Joe Biden's gaffe de jour - this is what passes for leadership?
City of Kirkland: It ain't none of your business!
AG to Kirkland on public records: Clean up your act...respectfully speaking, of course
Trial lawyers tiptoe to the tax-cut trough
Soon from your federal government: mind control
Answer these healthcare questions, Congressman!
Col. Sanders, meet Rep. Brian Baird
Is Cash-for-Clunkers just a way for Big Brother to watch you?
Town Hall meetings revisited - what a difference a week makes
Adieu, Northwest Territorial Mint - We hardly knew ye...
Kirkland council member misuses city e-mail
Beck exposes another Obama Administration official - swift resignation followed
Judge hammers Kent teachers, union – stiff fines if no return to classroom
U.S. Senators vote to support sex trade
McDermott, Larsen vote to fund under-aged sex trade
All them little ACORNS didn't fall far from the tree
ACORN-related pictures worth thousands of dirty little words
Gov. Gregoire threatens to turn murderers, rapists loose in neighborhoods unless taxes are raised
The customer is always right - a prescription for healthcare
Canadian Medicare - it's a waiting...and waiting...and waiting game
What goes up can never go down - in Washington state, that is
Valley Medical Center politics - a chicken comes home to roost
Health Care Watch for Thursday, October 15 - Baucus and beyond
Health Care Watch for Friday, October 16 - It's Rangeled up
Health Care Watch for Monday, October 19 - What's on the table?
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, October 20 - The public option: It's B-A-C-K!
Modern man a wimp, says anthropologist
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, October 21 – Heavy lifting required
Health Care Watch for Thursday, October 22 - An all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time moment
Climate Chains - A film you must see
Health Care Watch for Friday, October 23 - Obama Care today keeps the doctor away...permanently
Health Care Watch for Monday, October 26 - Through the Congressional glass darkly
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, October 27 - Nickled and dimed to death
New political troubles down in the Valley
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, October 28 - Battle lines are drawn
Health Care Watch for Thursday, October 29 - The House weighs in
Health Care Watch for Friday, October 30 - The Haunted House and its health-care pumpkin
Health Care Watch for Monday, November 2 - Calling Dr. Goldberg, Dr. Rube Goldberg
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, November 3 - "Worst Bill Ever"
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, November 4 - What a difference a day makes
Health Care Watch for Thursday, November 5 - Repeat after me: No free lunch, no free lunch...
Health Care Watch for Friday, November 6 - High noon
Health Care Watch Special Edition for Saturday, November 7 - House passes Pelosi bill
Health Care Watch for Monday, November 9 – Nancy Pelosi meet Isaac Newton
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, November 10 - Pelosi and The Piper
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, November 11 - Ever heard of the Constitution?
Veterans Day - Are we paying attention?
Health Care Watch for Friday, November 13 - With Obama Care, it's always Friday the 13th
Health Care Watch for Monday, November 16 - One hand dirties the other
Washington state abounds with phantom Congressional districts per government Web site
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, November 17 - Polls show majority opposed, but opposed to what?
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, November 18 - Enabling dependency
Phantom congressional districts Web site corrected - sort of
Health Care Watch for Friday, November 20 - How will Harry play?
Health Care Watch for Monday, November 23 - Constitution? We don't need no Constitution
Health Care Watch for Monday, November 30 - Whole lot o' shoutin' goin' on
WSF safety lapses raise concerns
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, December 1 - Carrying charges
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, December 2 - Dems asked to bite the hand that feeds them
Health Care Watch for Monday, December 7 - Politics which will live in infamy
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, December 8 - Get a life, Harry!
With teachers' unions, it's always Groundhog Day
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, December 9 - Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat
Paperwork bungle may have freed cop killer
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, December 15 - Anybody's guess
Clemmons record mix-up not on Gregoire reform agenda
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, December 16 - Cliff's Notes, anyone?
Health Care Watch for Monday, December 21 - Ain't no fat lady sung yet!
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, December 23 - An offer he can't refuse
Health Care Watch for Monday, December 28 - Rum soaked fruitcake
Michigan's official tartan - the garb of new gall
Rogues gallery 2009 - Top 10 blog posts for the year
Phantom Zip Codes follow on heels of phantom Congressional districts
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, January 5 - It was a dark and stormy night
The United States government's seal of approval - I'm legit!
Freedom Foundation reporter headed to Massachusetts to cover Senate race
On the ground in Springfield, Mass.
Voter apathy the norm in Springfield
Coakley rallies union faithful
Election Day finds Coakley at home
Brown bests Coakley – Hometown fails to stem tide
Stimulus contract is news to recipient
More on the Cassan's victory in SeaTac
Times partners with bloggers for local news coverage
Evergreen State to have going out of business sale?
Don't bogart, Mr. Mayor Pro-Tem
Another assault on your right to know
House Panel votes to dump I-960 - Political cover seen as key reason
Opposite sides' rallies dominate Presidents Day at State Capitol
The Kabuki drama - Greek tragedy death of I-960
Laying on of hands at the Capitol
Senate vote means tax hikes soon and inevitable
Gregoire signs I-960 suspension - doesn't favor sales tax hike
Health Care Watch for Monday February 22 - Bella Lugosi is the symbol of health care "reform"
Legislators say the darndest things
BREAKING NEWS: Tacoma teacher shot, killed at elementary school
Health Care Watch for Friday February 26 - The Sominex summit and subsequent saber rattling
Per KING 5-Survey USA Poll, I-960 move by governor, legislature stinks
At Washington State Ferries not even a stopped clock is right twice a day
Senate passes budget - hike in sales tax favored
Health Care Watch for Monday March 1 - All you need to know about the health care summit
House budget plan nickels and dimes to death
House committee approves tax-hike measure
I'm from the government, and I don't need to follow the rules
Health Care Watch for Wednesday, March 3 - Judgment Day
Is Obama selling judgeships in exchange for health care votes?
Senate committee takes up income tax measure on short notice
Around the legislative budget-and-tax horn
The public pulse on tax increases - Who do you trust?
BREAKING NEWS: Senate passes tax package - More hikes to come.
Smokes to cost more, per Senate action - Idaho, Oregon merchants rejoice
Special session? Bet the farm on it
One legislator, multiple votes
Special session to begin Monday
State worker benefit fund near insolvency - Legislative mismanagement blamed
Gregoire and Chopp - They be party hearty
The 2010 special session - A whole lot o' nothin' goin' on
Health Care Watch for Tuesday, March 16 - The end game
Special session day two - More nothin'
Huskies make it to Final Four - But it's the K Street Lobbyist Final Four
Legislature budget-tax vote expected Sunday - Millions at stake
A double-take on double-voting in the Washington State House of Representatives
Longer special session expected - Sales tax increase the hang up
House passes revised tax hike then takes a hike
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - This is the day
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - This is the day SPECIAL UPDATE
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - Baird now "yes"
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - Ryan emerges as GOP keeper of the flame
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - Stupak now "yes"
Health Care Watch for Sunday, March 21 - BREAKING: Obamacare passes narrowly
Health Care Watch for Monday, March 22 - Hollow health care victory
Special session deadlocked - Tax deal elusive
The 2010 special session continues - "I got you babe..."
Senate blows off House on tax package - the beat goes on
Special session finds legislators hard asleep
Horrific tragedy - Lake City Dick's victim of alleged DUI drive-thru
Why bother when it's all free?
ChiComs buy Volvo - Libs can't wait for new people's car
Legislators holed up in Auburn
Rob McKenna stays in the kitchen, takes the heat
Proposal to break tax impasse surfaces in Oly back rooms
Explosion, fire at Anacortes refinery kills three
State worker furlough bill passes despite strong bi-partisan opposition
Not quite "Ron on the Rock," but not bad either
Senate leaders explain new tax proposal
"Go home" tax package proposed by governor - no sales tax
"Go home" tax package goes too far?
Key senator hopeful, not certain tax package will fly
House passes tax hike - Senate to weigh in Monday
Legislature passes tax increases, operating budget
"Hans Bonds" bottle dependent - passes anyway
Tax Day Tea Parties draw thousands, stress positive themes
Strong majority supports repeal of new health care law
Gregoire signs tax hikes, says she'll also sign income tax initiative
Stimulus package? Sure hasn't stimulated much
Morris says Washington Senate race key to GOP control
Dick Morris in his own words predicting Patty Murray will be defeated by Dino Rossi
British PM Gordon Brown calls English grandmother "bigoted"
The Guns of 2010: Greece, Europe and American involvement
Washington state Business & Occupation tax increases: It's personal to me
Gov. Christine Gregoire adding new meaning to the term federal express?
NJ Gov. Chris Christie shows how it's done
ChiefExecutive.net survey claims Washington state 30th best in which to do business
Journalism: what does it take to be "real?"
The citizen and journalistic tools of empowerment
Politicians of all parties stacked up like cord wood
Beware a legislator buying drinks
Dino Rossi dives into Senate race - everybody out of the pool?
Memorial Day 2010 - Witness for them
Helen Thomas is why The Watchdogs are necessary
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to teachers' union: "You punch them, I'll punch you!"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, health care legislation and an ill-mannered audience: it's all bad
Cash: the “green” in the green movement - A visit to Seattle's 2010 Green Festival
The dark side of green: radical politics and environmentalism
Gov. Chris Gregoire and Gov. Chris Christie: The agony and the ecstasy
National Labor Relations Board cannot decide cases without sufficient members, says SCOTUS
Another tale of two Chris' - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire
Voters to Legislature and governor: we want a mulligan on those tax increases
SCOTUS rules on R-71 case - coin still in the air
Joe Biden and Job Creation 101 - a tutorial
Third District Congressional candidates square off
Gov. Christine Gregoire seeks to transform state budget - serious effort or shell game?
BREAKING NEWS: Judge KO's Washington Federation of State Employees on furlough injunction demand
Income tax Initiative 1098 supported by fraudulent signatures, officials acknowledge
Gov. Christine Gregoire seeks to transform state budget - serious effort or shell game? Part II
D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee fires 241 teachers
LeBron James, Sen. John Kerry and the late Judge Learned Hand - three of a kind?
Gov. Christine Gregoire seeks to transform state budget - serious effort or shell game? Part III
King County Council holds public safety hostage in order to raise sales tax