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| Larsen: Pell Grant Cuts Would Devastate Local Students | U.S. Representative Rick Larsen says budget cuts could have a negative impact on students. Larsen said on Wednesday that cutting Pell grants in the federal budget would devastate students of local schools like Western Washington University. |
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| State budget proposals delayed as deficit outlook worsens | Legislative leaders have given no clear indication of when the House and Senate will roll out their proposed state budgets for the next two years, even as they enter the final weeks of a 105-day session clouded by predictions of a deepening deficit. |
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| State funding for arts in jeopardy | Government funding for the arts is falling on hard times amid the state's multibillion budget shortfall. |
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| Retirees' cost-of-living raises eyed as budget fix | While state workers are taking home less money, the people who used to hold state jobs are being paid more. |
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| Application deadline for Pilot Project and Grant-in-Aid grants from RSP is April 19 | |||
| 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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| Flashback: Fundraising video for young alumni from the Western Foundation |