OLYMPIA – With economic recovery described as “a mirage in the desert” and a projected gap between income and spending growing to $1.4 billion, state officials began setting the stage Thursday for a special legislative session that would find ways to cut more from the…
The bleak economic picture in the state likely will make the Spokane City Council’s job balancing the 2012 harder by about a $1 million, the city’s budget director told the council on Thursday. But not all the news at a council budget briefing on was…
OLYMPIA -- The state's economic forecast for the remainder of this two-year budget cycle comes out this morning, and the real question here is not "Will it be bad?" but "How bad will it be?" In June, the forecast all but wiped out the budgetary…
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