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The night before Thanksgiving, I held my newborn granddaughter—my family’s investment in the future— and remembered something my mother often said to me: “Never sacrifice your future for your present.”
As a grand-mother and University of Washington Tacoma student, I’ve considered her words…

Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday warned that protesters at the state Capitol who break the law while demonstrating will be arrested.

"When I have six officers who've been injured and one other state employee who's been injured, something is wrong,…

The Washington Education Association is withholding support from Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposed half-cent increase in the sales tax to help schools and health care programs. Instead its leaders want lawmakers to look for other tax options that don’t hit the low-income taxpayer so hard.

Clearly I misunderstood.
I must be part of the 99 percent – those who thought the current emergency session of the Washington state Legislature would look like an emergency room. Except for the protesters, whose demeanor has varied from milling about to storming the castle, the place has…

Inside the capitol on Tuesday, a different and hopefully more effective approach was being deployed.

Leaders of the Associated Students of the University of Washington were quietly going one-on-one with legislators, more than 30 by mid-afternoon. They are, reluctantly, backing Gov. Chris…

Shouting protesters disrupted a public hearing on proposed budget cuts Tuesday afternoon and several had to be forcibly removed by state troopers.

Of 11 people arrested Tuesday, six are accused of disorderly conduct, most for disrupting a budget hearing.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jesse Yeh uses the University of California, Berkeley library instead of buying textbooks. He scrounges for free food at campus events and occasionally skips meals.

He's stopped exercising and sleeps five to six hours per night so he can…

A new Elway Research poll found that 64 percent of the voters surveyed indicated they were likely to support a temporary bump in the state sales tax to avoid cuts to certain state services.

The poll found that 43 percent were “certainly willing” and 21 percent were “probably willing” to…

Washington lawmakers were met with loud protests Monday on the first day of a 30-day special legislative session called to close a $2 billion state budget gap.

State troopers said most protesters made their opposition to budget cuts known peacefully, but troopers used stun guns on three…