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| Bill would partner state with online university | Railroad mechanical worker Luke Trapp has a schedule that changes from week to week, and the 24-year-old Seattle resident doesn't know if he'll be living in Seattle next year — or next month. So when he wanted to get his bachelor's degree in business management, he decided he… |
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| Alumni must come together to fight for higher education | Higher education in our state is at a crossroads. In one direction lies a path of necessary innovation, economic vitality and limitless opportunities for a citizenry growing by leaps and bounds. In the other, closed doors and minds, economic decline and mounting despair. Which road is taken will… |
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| Groups respond to revenue forecast with rallies against cuts to state programs | In response to today's revenue forecast, which estimates the state's budget shortfall for the next two years will be about $5.3 billion, about 1,000 teachers, healthcare workers students and others crowded onto the Capitol steps, calling for lawmakers to end tax exemptions rather than… |
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| State's budget gap grows to $5.3 billion | Washington’s state budget gap widened Thursday to about $5.3 billion through mid-2013. A new revenue forecast knocked another $780 million out of budget-writers’ hands, due to geopolitical uncertainty in the Mideast and Japan. In doing so, the forecast stoked a growing debate: Should the… |
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| $5 billion state deficit likely to force deep cuts in services | Washington's chief economist Thursday delivered the bad news everyone expected: Tax collections are down, pushing the state's projected budget deficit above $5 billion. Now lawmakers must erase it, a task they've been dreading, and the governor warned it must be done… |
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| State revenue projection just got $698 million worse | The state's chief economist delivered more bad news on Thursday, announcing that projected state tax collections are down another $698 million over the next two years. |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Prez reaction to new state revenue forecast | The new state revenue forecast came out this afternoon, and the news is what many people feared. Tax collections are projected to be down another $780 million. About $80 million of that is for the current fiscal year, which ends in June, bringing the current budget gap to $200… |
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| Employees may donate to Japan relief efforts via the Combined Fund Drive | |||
| Report Shows Phosphorus Levels Rising in Lake Whatcom | Lake Whatcom still has problems according to the latest report from Western Washington University researchers. Dr. Robin Mathews says development is the likely culprit. |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's winter graduation is Saturday, March 19 | About 560 Western Washington University students will receive their bachelor's and master's degrees Saturday, March 19, at the university's winter graduation ceremony. The ceremony will start at 10 a.m. in Carver Gymnasium on ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's campus. Tickets are required for… |