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After using her veto pen to slice off about $15 million (sorry about that $500k for the wastewater treatment plant, Airway Heights), Gov. Chris Gregoire today approved a $291 million supplemental operating budget that leaves $850 million in savings.

Here's a handy list that includes some of the budget highlights, county by county. The boldfaced items are new money in the supplemental budget. The regular text ones were included in last year's $33.4 billion main budget.



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