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Senate advances its 2-year budget, cuts $4.8B

The Washington state Senate approved Monday its proposed two-year state budget that slashes $4.8 billion in state spending, including deepening cuts to K12 education.

The 34-13 vote sets up negotiations with the House of Representatives and Gov. Chris Gregoire's office that will…

Comparing Olympia's plans: How high could tuition climb? A lot

By fall 2012, the price of an undergraduate year at the University of Washington could reach $11,567 — a number that brings the UW close to the cost of California's most expensive public schools.

Under the most recent budget proposal outlined by the state…

Boxed-in lawmakers balance Washington's budget

VOTERS told state lawmakers in no uncertain terms last fall to learn to live within their means. No new taxes. No funny stuff. Make it work.

Framing the budget for the two years beginning July 1, 2011, therefore, is the challenge from hell.
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105 days not enough for Legislature

State lawmakers are headed into a special session. They just don't know how far they'll get on a budget agreement next week before adjourning or when Gov. Chris Gregoire might call them back to finish the job.

Workers seek outside options to end tax breaks

Stifled by the two-thirds majority vote required in the Legislature to raise taxes, supporters of ending certain tax breaks are looking to other options as the end of the legislative session nears.

A labor union member has filed several versions of two initiatives…

Bruce Shepard speaks on Western's budget challenges
Biology’s Craig Moyer awarded Consortium for Ocean Leadership grant
Western student wins federal fellowship to study in Germany
Spending: House, Senate have 11 days to negotiate

The state House has advanced a spending plan authored by Democrats, and the Senate could approve its own bipartisan plan as soon as Friday. Next comes the negotiations. With just 11 days left in the scheduled legislative session in Olympia, there are major differences to work out between the two…

Live chats: Budget proposal Q&A with state senators

State Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, and Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, will take reader questions today at 1 p.m. about the bipartisan budget proposal released by the Senate on Tuesday. Murray is the chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee that wrote the budget. Zarelli is the ranking…

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