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| Gregoire budget starts with $2 billion in cuts, but will tax increase follow? | 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. |
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| Bad, worse and unthinkable | 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鈥 |
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| Western's Andreas Riemann to discuss his research in molecular nanostructures Nov. 3 | |||
| Troy Abel presents at biology and conservation conference in Mexico | |||
| Raquel Montoya-Lewis named to federal committee on juvenile justice | |||
| 草榴社区 Officials Express Concern Over State Budget Cuts | Officials at Western Washington University are gravely concerned about deep cuts to education in Governor Chris Gregoire鈥檚 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. |
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| Economists: Cargo terminal would bring fewer construction jobs, slightly more permanent ones | The Gateway Pacific Terminal project at Cherry Point could create more than 1,200 permanent jobs when indirect impacts are factored in, three local economists said Thursday, Oct. 27, at a Bellingham-Whatcom Chamber of Commerce and Industry breakfast presentation. |
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| Gregoire outlines grim choices for budget cuts | 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. |
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| New study points to jobs from Bellingham coal port | Three Bellingham economists Thursday released research supporting a previous study commissioned by Gateway Pacific Terminal, estimating that a proposed new export terminal at Cherry Point north of Bellingham would employ up to 430 鈥渄irect鈥 jobs and generate another 843 鈥渋ndirect and induced鈥濃 |
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| Western Libraries holds haunted open house |