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| Legislature considering limitations on borrowing | Sen. Derek Kilmer ascended this year to an influential role in channeling state-borrowed money to local projects 鈥 and immediately set about tightening the purse strings. 鈥淥ccasionally, we need to constrain ourselves,鈥 the Gig Harbor Democrat explained to fellow lawmakers Monday, 鈥渢o鈥 |
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| Senate advances its 2-year budget, cuts $4.8B | The Washington state Senate approved Monday its proposed two-year state budget that slashes $4.8 billion in state spending, including deepening cuts to K12 education. The 34-13 vote sets up negotiations with the House of Representatives and Gov. Chris Gregoire's office that will鈥 |
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| Comparing Olympia's plans: How high could tuition climb? A lot | By fall 2012, the price of an undergraduate year at the University of Washington could reach $11,567 鈥 a number that brings the UW close to the cost of California's most expensive public schools. |
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| Boxed-in lawmakers balance Washington's budget | VOTERS told state lawmakers in no uncertain terms last fall to learn to live within their means. No new taxes. No funny stuff. Make it work. |
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| 105 days not enough for Legislature | State lawmakers are headed into a special session. They just don't know how far they'll get on a budget agreement next week before adjourning or when Gov. Chris Gregoire might call them back to finish the job. |
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| Workers seek outside options to end tax breaks | Stifled by the two-thirds majority vote required in the Legislature to raise taxes, supporters of ending certain tax breaks are looking to other options as the end of the legislative session nears. |
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| Bruce Shepard speaks on Western's budget challenges | |||
| Spending: House, Senate have 11 days to negotiate | The state House has advanced a spending plan authored by Democrats, and the Senate could approve its own bipartisan plan as soon as Friday. Next comes the negotiations. With just 11 days left in the scheduled legislative session in Olympia, there are major differences to work out between the two鈥 |
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| Live chats: Budget proposal Q&A with state senators | State Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, and Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, will take reader questions today at 1 p.m. about the bipartisan budget proposal released by the Senate on Tuesday. Murray is the chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee that wrote the budget. Zarelli is the ranking鈥 |
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| Comparing state Senate and House budget proposals | Late Tuesday night, the state Senate unveiled its 2011-13 budget proposal, which would cut about $4.8 billion in state spending. While many of the cuts in the Senate budget proposal are similar to the House proposal, which was passed last week, a few areas are vastly different when it鈥 |