1. More States Go the Way of SST (and the SST finally updates its website to make it far closer to being user friendly than ever before, see here)
2. The Main Street Fairness Act Is Gaining Momentum (see here) 
3. New York Prevails Over Amazon (thus far) & The New York Times Featured a Thanksgiving-Day Editorial Some 11 Months Later On It – How Cool Was That? (see here and here: From The New York Times, “Online retailers who do not collect sales tax enjoy a significant and unfair advantage over rivals who must add the tax to their prices. They also cost the states billions of dollars a year in lost sales tax revenue — money that cash-starved states cannot afford to forgo. New York’s Legislature made the right decision in 2008 when it passed a law requiring Amazon.com and other Internet retailers to collect taxes on sales to New York customers. Amazon challenged the law in a lower court, and lost in January. A New York appeals court is expected to rule soon. New Yorkers will be well served if it upholds the lower court’s ruling. And other states would be wise to look to New York as a model.”)
4. The Must-Read E-Commerce Paper of the Year Is Published by the University of Tennessee (see here)
5. The Second Must-Read E-Commerce Paper of the Year Is Published by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (see here)
6. And the Third Must-Read E-Commerce Paper of the Year Follows That, Published by the Center on Budget and Policies Priorities, Blasting Amazon.com (see here)
7. H1N1 (oops . . . wrong list!)
The real 7. Expedia, Orbitz, Hotels.com, Priceline, Travelocity, et al Take a Sales Tax Beating (see here, here, here, here, and here)
8. The Concept of “Nexus” Becomes a Bit More, Shall We Say, Pliable? (see here and here)
9. Live Free or Die! New Hampshire Kicks Taxachusetts’ A$$ (see here, here, here, here, here, and here)
10. Marijuana Gets the Attention It Deserves, Especially From a Sales Tax Perspective (see here) 
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I agree with these picks. You do a good job in this list and all year keeping me in the know of what is the real important stuff versus what is just taking up space. Thank you!
Love this, love it! Thank you, Althea!!
thanks for taking the time to make up these lists for us and keeping us aware of what matteered this year for sales tax