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As part of her budget reduction package, Gov. Chris Gregoire asked state employee union leaders to reopen their collective bargaining contracts so the state could reduce the amount it spends on monthly health care premiums.

The state currently allocates $850 monthly per employee. Reducing…

COLLEGE students already burdened by skyrocketing tuition deserve relief from overpriced textbooks.

All the more reason to cheer and support a pioneering effort pushed by the state Board of Community and Technical Colleges to develop new, dramatically less…

Nothing is apparently too small to cut when faced with a $2 billion state budget shortfall.

Gov. Chris Gregoire sent out a directive Friday telling agencies, among other things, to look for ways to reduce the number of cellphones and land lines and shrink the size…

The best ways parents can support their child's education and their school is to pass the tax levies and volunteer as much as possible, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday, Nov. 3, while at Shuksan Middle School.
School districts around Washington are bracing for another round of budget…

As Washington's prepaid tuition program opens to new participants Tuesday, the plan may not seem like much of a bargain to people who bought in years ago at the equivalent of $7,000 or $8,000 for a year of college.

As Washington’s prepaid tuition program opens to new participants today, the plan might not seem like much of a bargain to people who bought in years ago at the equivalent of $7,000 or $8,000 for a year of college.

But it’s the inevitable result of keeping up with the state’s skyrocketing…

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…

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.

Now, in the days leading up to next month…

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…