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| Washington budget leaders must stay focused on budget fixes | THIS page has urged the Legislature to get moving on the budget problem. Gov. Chris Gregoire's director of finance, Marty Brown, said the same in an email to legislators last week. |
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| Wait OK, if reforms result | State lawmakers won't achieve the Gov. Chris Gregoire's goal of filling a $1.4 billion budget shortfall -- and leaving another $600 million in reserves -- by Christmas. It appears they may get about a quarter of the way there this week as they wind down their special session, leaving鈥 |
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| Washington lawmakers eye $400m fix early next week | State lawmakers are in advanced discussions to make $400 million in budget cuts next week as a preliminary fix to the state's $1.4 billion shortfall, top budget negotiators said Friday. |
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| Higher ed financial aid in peril | Higher education financial aid programs may suffer with or without state cuts, leaving college students with fewer options. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e not decisions any of us would say we want to do. But in the scope of bad decisions, it has the least impact, and that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e trying to do,鈥 Sen.鈥 |
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| Gregoire testifies on aerospace education bills | Gov. Chris Gregoire is encouraging lawmakers to pass a package of bills she says will ensure the state's aerospace competitiveness into the future. |
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| Private college presidents paid well | The president of one of the state鈥檚 small private colleges had the highest annual compensation package in 2009, and the president of the state鈥檚 largest private college had one of the smallest packages, according to an annual report released today by The Chronicle of Higher Education. |
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| Can Washington help what ails American higher ed? | At a meeting with college leaders this week, President Barack Obama was looking for ideas. Amid record budget deficits, can Washington actually do anything to help make American colleges less expensive and more productive? |
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| Agencies need to embrace better management of cellphones | It鈥檚 not going to save the state budget, but state Auditor Brian Sonntag鈥檚 recent performance audit on use of cellular telephones in state government points to clear abuses and unnecessary expenditures. The audit found the state paid more than a half-million dollars a year for 2,000鈥 |
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| Editorial: Washington lawmakers must make budget reforms before they raise revenues | LEGISLATORS should remember why they were called to Olympia a month early. An emergency requires urgency. It requires working together. It requires movement. |
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| Budget negotiators aim for partial solution | Top Republican and Democratic budget writers in the House say they are now trying to reach a deal on some of the less controversial proposed budget cuts, with hopes of eliminating just a fraction of the state鈥檚 $2 billion budget shortfall in the Legislature鈥檚 emergency session. |