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Echoing President Barack Obama, Gov. Chris Gregoire said "this is what Wall Street has done to our state" when she proposed eliminating health insurance for the poor and reducing even further support for education and public safety.

The shift to populous…

Gov. Chris Gregoire made clear last week that she wants new state revenues to avert some of the $2 billion in cuts needed to put the state’s finances back in balance.

She said she does not have specific new tax or fee ideas to champion. But she won’t have to look…

THREE years ago, when the state entered this financial chasm, Gov. Chris Gregoire offered the people optimism and a serving of denial. Not anymore. She offers us reality: "This is what our options look like."

They are not nice — but nice is not an option…

Enter a magical world where big problems simply disappear because there’s no money to fix them.
A glimpse of that make-believe world can be found in the budget proposals released Thursday by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Gregoire doesn’t believe in magic herself, but enough Washingtonians do that…

Gov. Chris Gregoire just released a list of possible budget reductions. And education, especially higher education, is taking quite a hit.

Gregoire’s budget cut list includes about $4.2 billion in cuts for the rest of the 2011-13 biennium. However, about $2 billion of those cuts are what…

Facing another crippling budget deficit, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday outlined $2 billion in reductions in state spending she says will cut painfully "through the muscle and into the bone" of public services.

Now, in the days leading up to next month…

Having cut $10.5 billion in state spending over just the last three years, there was no doubt that lopping another $2 billion or so would be painful. Yet it was hard to avoid a sense of shock Thursday when Gov. Chris Gregoire outlined the stark choices legislators will face to align the budget…

Citing a looming budget shortfall, Gov. Chris Gregoire's office on Wednesday asked union-represented government workers to consider cutting their health-care benefits to save the state money.

The initial reaction from the largest state-employee union? Fat…

Officials at Western Washington University are gravely concerned about deep cuts to education in Governor Chris Gregoire’s supplemental budget proposal.

The Governor has suggested cuts of 15 to 20 percent to higher education which would equate to about ten to 13 million dollars.

For the fourth year in a row, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday outlined more than $1.5 billion in state cuts to health care, social services, prisons and education.

The latest round would increase public-school class sizes, eliminate subsidized health care for the…