Admittedly, I’ve been slow getting around to this post. Late January, and the first week of February, was pretty busy. However, I’ve been carrying around the aging bit of newsprint since January 14th. The story seemed significant and…well…maybe better late than never. The state of New York won the first round in court against on-line giant Amazon.com over a new law requiring out-of-state online companies to collect state sales tax from shoppers in the state of New York.