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| WA university presidents: Obama wrong on tuition | The presidents of Washington's three largest universities said Friday that President Barack Obama should be talking to state governments about college tuition, not complaining to them. |
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| House GOP wants deregulation to go with $1 billion jobs plan | If Democrats and moderate Republicans want extra help on a $1 billion jobs plan, House Republican Leader Richard DeBolt is naming his price: cooperation on bills that soften Washington’s state land-use rules and soften requirements for utilities to buy green power. DeBolt also wants state… |
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| Republican lawmakers say work on state budget lags | Republican lawmakers Wednesday decried what they say is slow action on progress to close a $1 billion budget gap. |
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| President Obama should put rising tuition blame on state legislatures | PRESIDENT Obama cast welcome prominence on the challenge of college affordability in his State of the Union speech, but the threat to withhold federal funding from institutions that don't rein in tuition is misdirected. |
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| Gregoire hopes ‘Lean’ process to make state more efficient | Inside the Stafford Creek state prison, an inmate serving time for murder works quietly at a desk, using computer-assisted-design tools. He is putting final touches on a blueprint for a bunk bed that might be built for a university’s dorms. Other inmates take furniture orders at one end… |
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| $1 billion plan could put 25,000 people to work | State lawmakers say talks continue on a more than $1 billion public-works package that could potentially put 25,000 people to work, many starting in the summer construction season just months away. |
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| As 2012 agenda unfolds, to raise or cut taxes is the big question | As state lawmakers gather for their 2012 legislative sessions, taxes are emerging as a key issue, with at least half a dozen Republican governors pressing for sweeping tax cuts and just as many Democrats pushing for tax increases. |
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| McKenna opposes sales tax boost; Inslee not sold either | In proposing a half-penny sales tax increase earlier this month, Gov. Chris Gregoire framed it as a necessity if the state is to avoid further deep cuts to schools and social services. |
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| Talking to Frank Chopp, Speaker of the Washington State House of Representatives | Entering its fourth straight year of major budget cuts, the 2012 Washington State Legislature is under way. In a rare one-on-one interview, the Puget Sound Business Journal sat down with Speaker of the House Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) to talk about new — and remaining — challenges state lawmakers… |
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| Webb, Nielsen named Page Legacy Educators for 2012 |