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| Special session if no budget deal is reached by Thursday deadline | The Legislature teetered on the edge of going into special session as Democratic and Republican leaders started tentative budget negotiations Monday. |
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| Capital gains tax could help to solve state budget problems | The state of Washington could benefit on several fronts from a tax on capital gains. The tax already in place in 42 states would bring some stability and equity to the current tax system, which has the 20 percent of families with the lowest income paying 17 percent of what they earn on… |
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| GOP grabs reins of budget in Olympia | Republicans pulled a coup early Saturday, seizing control of the state Senate to pass a budget radically different from one proposed by the Democratic majority. |
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| Senate earthquake should change state budget landscape | THE passage of a Republican budget out of the Washington State Senate with a majority of Democrats amounts to a political earthquake not seen in 25 years. Events like this do not happen without cause and cannot be talked into going away. |
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| Positive budget deal a little closer | More than a little sleight of hand went into the budget proposal unveiled by Senate Democratic leaders Tuesday in Olympia. Despite some creative accounting to patch a roughly $1 billion hole, though, the plan sets a new standard that should be adhered to in a final compromise: It spares… |
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| Murray Budget in Hands of Conservative Democrats | State senate budget chief, Sen. Ed Murray (D-43, Seattle), the ways and means committee chair who has gotten a standing ovation for his budget proposal from progressives (a first from Olympia in years), told PubliCola this morning that the Republicans may be making a credible effort to pass… |
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| Proposed state budget avoids tax increases, school cuts, but still looking for votes | Educators, prosecutors and providers of health and human services cheered Senate Democrats on Tuesday for their plan to rebalance the state budget without new cuts to schools, colleges and major social service programs. |
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| Democrats’ budget leaves schools alone | Senate Democratic leaders laid out a partisan budget plan Tuesday that spares public schools and universities from new spending cuts and, like the House Democrats’ offering last week, avoids a tax referendum. |
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| President Shepard sends updated message regarding proposed state budgets | |||
| Democrats advance budget plan with no sales-tax hike or school cuts | With bipartisanship out of political reach, Senate Democrats today unveiled a plan to rebalance the state budget without relying on higher taxes or carving any more dollars from public schools and colleges. |