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| Prospect Of Washington Special Session Looms | It appears more likely Washington lawmakers will go into an overtime session. The regular 105-day session ends this Sunday. But the House and Senate, along with the governor, still have to agree on a two-year budget deal. Even if a deal was at hand -- and it doesn’t appear one is -- they’d be… |
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| Internet sales tax bill could boost state budget by $184 million | After years of talk, Congress is moving toward possibly ending a loophole that has prevented states from collecting sales taxes on many Internet purchases. The U.S. Senate could vote this week to approve the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would end the longstanding tax advantage enjoyed… |
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| Congress should extend low-interest rate for federal student loans | |||
| CWU facing decision on chimps: Add more or move? | When Dar, one of the chimps housed at the Chimpanzee Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University, died suddenly late last November, the question of the future of an already-dwindling chimpanzee population at the center became even more pressing. |
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| Washington's budget: How do we get to shared realism from here? | This week, we enter the behind-the-scenes negotiations phase of the Washington legislative session. |
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| Why STEM Should Care About the Humanities | One need not look far these days to find people skeptical (at best) about the value of higher education. Most of these people particularly question the value of a liberal-arts education, which they view as outdated and elitist. Claiming economic pragmatism, they seek the curtailment or even… |
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| Survival of the fittest: Both sides prep for state budget battle | Today, the Democratic-controlled Washington House will likely pass the $34.5 billion 2013-2015 budget it unveiled two days ago. |
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| Dream Act deserves a vote | The state Senate’s Higher Education Committee used curious reasoning to deny financial aid to a small but promising group of future citizens who want to further their education. State lawmakers should resurrect House Bill 1817 and write it into the 2013-2015 biennium budget. |
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| The Ever-Shrinking Role of Tenured College Professors (in 1 Chart) | Once, being a college professor was a career. Today, it's a gig. That, broadly speaking, is the transformation captured in the graph below from a new report by the American Association of University Professors. Since 1975, tenure and tenure-track professors have gone from roughly 45… |