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| State鈥檚 budget choices require head and heart | Responding to the economic crisis calls for both brains and heart. Yes, the state budget has been hit hard by the recession, and smart minds and sharp pencils are needed. But the number-crunchers can鈥檛 forget the human impact of the recession, and need to make humane decisions. None of鈥 |
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| Could this be the idea that will fix state budget? | An accounting maneuver being considered at the state Capitol might allow Democrats and Republicans to cast aside the biggest point of contention in their ongoing budget negotiations. Republican lawmakers have been criticizing Democrats for wanting to push a payment to schools into the鈥 |
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| GOP lawmakers won't budge on pension-overhaul plan | As the Legislature slogs through its special session, Republicans show no sign of backing down from proposed pension-system changes that public employees call a "war on workers." |
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| Morning update: Special session day 10 | Senate Democrats hold a caucus meeting today where leaders will update their members on the status of budget talks. A coalition formed to oppose budget cuts will hold a news conference this morning to protest the Senate Republican budget. |
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| Morning update: Special session day 9 | State lawmakers welcome spring today while still working on the same task they started in the fall: trying to decide how to balance the budget. Gov. Chris Gregoire said Monday that budget writers were to meet again today at least once and look at an idea she gave them for finding some鈥 |
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| Construction in doldrums; jobs bill on hold in Olympia | The line snaked outside Local 440 in Seattle's Central District, plumes of cigarette smoke rising among the silhouettes. |
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| Are cuts reform or class warfare? Lawmakers differ | One state labor-union leader is calling a Republican proposal to cut pension benefits for future state employees an act of 鈥渃lass warfare.鈥 Republican Sen. Joe Zarelli defends it as 鈥渞eform.鈥 Senate Democratic leaders call it wrong and unnecessary, and Gov. Chris Gregoire is taking鈥 |
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| State weighs more private contracts for services in cost-savings measure | A decision is due by October on whether to roughly double the amount of central state-government printing that is farmed out to private companies. That will follow other potential boons to the private sector this summer, when state officials are to decide if companies should be tapped to鈥 |
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| Woodring projects given funding to pursue innovation |