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| Bellingham moves ahead with plans for a new public access TV channel | City Council is moving ahead with a plan to develop a new public television channel that will be available on the Comcast system. The cost of the new channel has been estimated at $380,000 in operational startup costs, plus annual operating expenses of about $200,000. On top of that, the… |
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| No COLA but no cuts for state employees | State employees will see few major gains — but also few pains — as a result of the 153-day legislative session that ended June 29. Pay for most Washington state government employees snapped back to 2011 levels on July 1 as a two-year, 3 percent cut in compensation and hours worked was… |
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| State’s students flocking to computer-science programs | For the past few years, educators and parents have been imploring students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and math — the so-called STEM fields. |
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| Editorial: Congress must reverse doubling of student-loan interest rates | CONGRESS squandered a year of potential progress on student-loan interest rates. The result of its inaction was a sharp rise in rates on Monday. |
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| Student loan interest rate doubles. Government could pay more, too. | Millions of college students woke up Monday to a new reality: The interest rate on their new subsidized Stafford loans – the most popular federal student loan program – doubled overnight. |
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| Gov. Inslee signs operating budget that ensures government can operate Monday | Gov. Jay Inslee put pen to paper and signed an operating budget Sunday afternoon that authorizes spending by state government agencies for the next two years. Lawmakers had approved the plan Friday evening just in time to head off a government shutdown on July 1. |
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| ‘Step forward’: College tuition frozen for at least a year | After four straight years of bad news, Washington’s colleges and universities got a much-needed lift on Friday when the Legislature boosted higher-education funding and froze tuition rates. |
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| Editorial: State budget rightly focuses on education | THE threat of a government shutdown Monday drove lawmakers to reach a budget compromise, averting a far-reaching financial disaster. |
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| Interest rates on new college student loans double, but Congress could restore low rates later | College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. |
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| Dropping Out of College, and Paying the Price | David Beltrán has a solid understanding of the benefits of a college education. The 22-year-old from Queens — a journalism major at Brooklyn College — has seen too many friends drop out only to find themselves working at a fast-food counter or at a construction job. “They are getting by, but… |