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• Spokane schools officials’ pay frozen

  May 15, 2012 in City on Page A1 Spokane Public Schools central administrators’ pay will remain unchanged for the 2012-’13 school year, district officials announced Monday. The decision comes as the district’s upcoming budget is being finalized. 18

• Gregoire reading fine print

  April 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – Some state spending that legislators approved shortly before dawn Wednesday as part of a package deal to end the session may not survive the veto pen. Gov. Chris … 1

• Shawn Vestal: Disability ‘lifestyle’ must not apply to senator

  April 11, 2012 in City on Page A5 Ever wonder who, exactly, “the most vulnerable” are? We’ve all heard of them. The “most vulnerable” are the folks who Republican budgeteers in Olympia vow to protect while they cut … 12

• Budget deal may be near

  April 10, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – Legislative leaders and the governor worked into the night Monday, searching for a solution to the state’s long-running budget stalemate, one that would allow them to adjourn the … 1

• Budget impasse testing tempers

  April 7, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – With no budget agreement and time running out in an extended session, tensions boiled over Friday evening as Senate leaders of both parties accused the other side of …

• House Democrats pass budget proposal

  April 6, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – Admitting it’s not the final solution to the state’s fiscal problem but a way to “move the process forward,” House Democrats passed and sent to the Senate a …

• Budget deal may be near

  March 30, 2012 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire lifted her self-imposed boycott of bill signings Thursday and said legislators could be close to reaching a deal on cuts to the state’s operating budget. …

• Analyst: Obama ups taxes for 1 in 4, mostly rich

  March 22, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan research group estimates that President Barack Obama’s budget would raise taxes next year on 1 in 4 households, but have little impact on families earning under … 15

• Special food aid on state cutting block

  March 22, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – For 15 years, Washington has helped thousands of people the federal government wouldn’t, providing food assistance to legal immigrants struggling to survive in America. That includes residents of … 3

• Spin Control: ‘Media’ negotiations are only problem when they don’t work

  March 18, 2012 in City on Page B3 OLYMPIA – “I’m not going to negotiate in the news media.” Politicians at all levels love to utter that sentence – when it’s to their advantage.

• Senate GOP unveils new budget plan

  March 16, 2012 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – For the first three days of Washington’s special session, everything involving the state’s troubled budget was done behind closed doors. That went by the wayside Thursday. Senate Republicans …

• Legislature braces for remaining budget work

  March 11, 2012 in City on Page B1 OLYMPIA – For all the criticism heaped on the Washington Legislature for what it didn’t do – fix a yawning gap of more than $1 billion in the state’s main … 2

• Washington legislature starts special session on Monday

  March 10, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – Overtime starts Monday for the Legislature, which failed to pass a general operating budget by midnight Thursday and was called back for a special session. After issuing a … 7

• Both sides guilty of budget-balancing gimmickry

  March 9, 2012 in City on Page A5 Amid all the talk of gimmicks wafting out of Olympia these days, it’s important to remember that everybody hates them. Everybody loves sound budgeting, everybody hates a gimmick, and everybody … 1

• Special session now looms

  March 6, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – The Legislature seemed headed for a special session Monday as leaders of both parties agreed it will be all but impossible in the time remaining to negotiate a … 2

• Relatively rosy state budget forecast expected

  February 16, 2012 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington might get the most optimistic budget outlook in years today when state economists deliver the latest revenue forecast. The demand for state services may be lower and … 9

• Obama sends 2013 budget proposal to Congress

  February 13, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama today sent Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade while at the same time showering … 79

• GOP proposes ‘Education First’

  February 3, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – House Republicans, who say they are fed up with the slow pace of the budgeting process in a session in which that was supposed to be the main … 3

• WA House Speaker goals: create jobs, fund education

  January 10, 2012 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington legislators started their 60-day session with the usual pomp and circumstance, and a quick preview of the debates likely to dominate the remaining 59 days. As soon … 2

• High court demands state education reforms

  January 6, 2012 in City on Page A1 SEATTLE – The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state isn’t meeting its constitutional obligation to amply pay for basic public education, but the justices gave an endorsement to … 8

• Libraries boost devotion to digital

  December 28, 2011 in City on Page A5 Spokane libraries are investing more than ever in digital collections, allocating larger percentages of their materials budgets to audiobooks, music downloads and maintaining databases to serve patrons using the latest … 1

• Government scammers come in all shapes and sizes

  December 17, 2011 in City on Page B1 Surely, by now, you’ve heard of the Lake Washington welfare scammers. A Seattle-area chiropractor and his wife, living in a million-dollar home and driving a Jaguar and fraudulently slurping up … 5

• Budgeters put tough decisions on hold

  December 13, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – For two weeks, legislators have heard emotional, sometimes angry testimony against major cuts to state programs and in favor of raising taxes. Monday, it became apparent they will … 11

• $1 trillion-plus spending bill taking shape in Congress

  December 12, 2011 in Nation/World Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement today on a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending bill that chips away at military and environmental spending but denies … 3

• State budget deal elusive

  December 9, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire acknowledged legislators are unlikely to pass some $2 billion in budget cuts she proposed in this special session. The governor also sees no chance … 3

• Gregoire: Deep cuts elusive in special session

  December 8, 2011 in City OLYMPIA – Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire acknowledged legislators are unlikely to pass some $2 billion in budget cuts she proposed in this special session. The governor also sees no chance … 3

• Riverside, Mount Spokane parks likely to be combined

  December 8, 2011 in Outdoors, City Riverside and Mount Spokane state parks likely will be combined and full-time employees reduced by about 40 percent as Washington State Parks officials scramble to slash the agency’s budget. 2

• Washington budget director urges state cuts

  December 6, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington state can’t wait until next year to cut its budget, the state’s budget director told legislators Monday. In the wake of recent comments by legislators that cast … 9

• Budget chief to Legislature: Time’s a-wasting, pass a budget

  December 5, 2011 in News OLYMPIA — The state can’t wait until next year to make changes to its budget that will reduce spending, the state’s budget director told legislators today. 10

• Protests shut down special hearing on budget

  November 28, 2011 in Region Washington lawmakers beginning a 30-day special session were met by hundreds of protesters Monday, and a committee meeting focusing on solutions to the state’s budget woes was abruptly halted amid … 17

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