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| Registrar’s Office extends thanks to volunteers | |||
| One at Western needs shared leave as of March 21, 2011 | |||
| 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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| State revenue projection just got $698 million worse | The state's chief economist delivered more bad news on Thursday, announcing that projected state tax collections are down another $698 million over the next two years. |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Prez reaction to new state revenue forecast | The new state revenue forecast came out this afternoon, and the news is what many people feared. Tax collections are projected to be down another $780 million. About $80 million of that is for the current fiscal year, which ends in June, bringing the current budget gap to $200… |
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| Deadline for Exceptional Effort Awards extended to 5 p.m. March 21 | |||
| Employees may donate to Japan relief efforts via the Combined Fund Drive |