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| Campus holiday party scheduled for Dec. 1 | |||
| Pension costs to rise | Washington recently changed its assumptions for paying for public-employee pensions, a move that means higher costs in 2013 for workers, the state and local governments. In a little-noticed vote last month, the state’ s Pension Funding Council unanimously agreed to lower its assumption of… |
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| Open enrollment workshops to be help Nov. 17, 22 on campus | |||
| Western wins Golden Apple Award for faculty, staff wellness program | |||
| Benefits open enrollment on now through Nov. 30 | |||
| Win the Traveling Goodies Basket for Western Wednesday | |||
| Western's Katy Frank delivers clean floors, fine art | |||
| Update: Gov. Gregoire proposes cutting state education by up to $1.5 billion | Gov. Chris Gregoire just released a list of possible budget reductions. And education, especially higher education, is taking quite a hit. Gregoire’s budget cut list includes about $4.2 billion in cuts for the rest of the 2011-13 biennium. However, about $2 billion of those cuts are what… |
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| Gregoire budget starts with $2 billion in cuts, but will tax increase follow? | Facing another crippling budget deficit, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday outlined $2 billion in reductions in state spending she says will cut painfully "through the muscle and into the bone" of public services. |
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| Bad, worse and unthinkable | Having cut $10.5 billion in state spending over just the last three years, there was no doubt that lopping another $2 billion or so would be painful. Yet it was hard to avoid a sense of shock Thursday when Gov. Chris Gregoire outlined the stark choices legislators will face to align the budget… |