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| Gregoire: Special session to begin Tuesday | Gov. Chris Gregoire said Friday she'll call lawmakers back into special session on Tuesday to try to finish what they couldn't in their regularly allotted time - balancing a Washington budget that is more than $5 billion in deficit. "There is more work to be done, we are鈥 |
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| House, Senate leaders have different preferences for special session timing | Lawmakers are set to end their regular session Friday, two days short of the 105 days allowed 鈥 but with hope to finally bridge a $5.3 billion budget gap during a special session. 鈥淚 believe it can be done in two weeks,鈥 Senate Ways and Means chairman Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said Thursday鈥 |
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| WA capital budget hinges on debt limit amendment | With the regular session scheduled to end this week, Washington state legislators are locked in a tussle over the state's construction budget and fast-growing debt service payments. |
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| Connelly: State approach to higher ed just not that smart | Gov. Chris Gregoire talked last week to Seattle Pacific University's annual business breakfast. She told a bootstraps story, of growing up in a single-parent household with a waitress mother who urged her to attend the UW and was "overwhelmed" seeing her daughter graduate from law鈥 |
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| Washington Legislature must not raid the capital budget to solve budget crisis | WASHINGTON state's budget crisis has everyone scrambling to eliminate government waste, find savings and possibly, end entire state programs. Despite all the bleak days in Olympia, there is one ray of hope still left coming from the capitol dome 鈥 Washington's capital investment plan.鈥 |
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| Seattle's college access lags far behind | Josue Lopez isn't your standard-issue college hopeful. The Skyline High School senior has a 2.96 GPA, dragged down by a bad freshman year. He has no savings accounts earmarked for tuition. There are no after-school tutoring sessions to help keep his grades up, no athletic鈥 |
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| Keep special session short | State lawmakers admit they'll miss their budget deadline. That doesn't spell a failed session ... yet. |
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| Senate approves 'bipartisan' budget on 34-13 vote | One senator rose to say he was unsure it could be done. Another called it the first truly bipartisan budget "ever," comparing it half-seriously to the first moon walk. |
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| Marchers Arrive At Wash. Capitol As Special Session Looms | The Washington legislature is headed for an overtime session. The Senate late Monday approved its plan to close a 5-billion dollar budget shortfall. But it is unlikely differences between the House and Senate can be reconciled by this Sunday's Easter deadline. Meanwhile Olympia鈥 |
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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 |