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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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| 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… |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| Candidates for dean of Woodring College to visit campus this month | |||
| Bruce Shepard speaks on Western's budget challenges | |||
| 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… |
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| 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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| Comparing state Senate and House budget proposals | Late Tuesday night, the state Senate unveiled its 2011-13 budget proposal, which would cut about $4.8 billion in state spending. While many of the cuts in the Senate budget proposal are similar to the House proposal, which was passed last week, a few areas are vastly different when it… |
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| Education cuts sabotage state's future | Washington is rapidly stripping support from its four-year public colleges and putting more cost burdens on students, at a time when brains trained at those colleges are needed to power the Evergreen State out of the Great Recession. Students are paying more for less. But the hidden cost… |