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• Verner calls for hiring more police officers

    May 19, 2011 in City on Page A5 Spokane Mayor Mary Verner ordered the hiring of at least six new police officers to fill vacant positions within the department and called for adding more officers next year. The … 1

• Education Notebook: Books earn Nook for Rogers’ Cook

  May 19, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Brice Cook, a student at Rogers High School, can read in style – and color – on his new Nook Color after he was awarded the top prize in Rogers …

• Gregoire signs transportation budget

  May 17, 2011 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the state’s 2011-’13 transportation budget Monday and issued a warning to the Legislature to hurry up on other spending plans for the next biennium …

• ‘We can no longer do everything for kids’

  May 16, 2011 in City on Page A1 Washington’s budget is still a work in progress, but Spokane Public Schools officials know they’re facing a budget gap between $9 million and $12 million. So with flexibility in mind, … 125

• Verner presents mix of budget solutions

  May 12, 2011 in City on Page A1 Spokane Mayor Mary Verner gave a preview Wednesday of a 2012 budget she says would be painless for residents who obey the law. Verner proposed to close a tentative $6.6 … 34

• Spin Control: Tax amnesty a windfall, but where’s the outrage?

  May 8, 2011 in City on Page B10 OLYMPIA – Business organizations regularly bemoan how little recognition, respect and support they get from the state. But evidence to the contrary was clear last week, when the state announced … 3

• Workers comp brings special session to a halt

  May 7, 2011 in Region OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers grappling over how to fill a projected budget shortfall of $5 billion may first have to end a stalemate on a more contentious issue: … 4

• City of Spokane short $6.6 million in ’12

  April 14, 2011 in City on Page A5 For the fourth straight year, Spokane leaders are forecasting a multimillion-dollar shortfall in the next annual budget. The city predicts a $6.6 million gap between expected revenues and expenses in … 30

• Senate’s school cut plan may not add up

  April 14, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – School districts around the state might have to “eat” a cut in teacher salaries being proposed by Senate budget writers because they won’t be able to reduce pay, … 13

• Senate outlines big cuts

  April 13, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Senate spending plans for the next two years propose cuts for public schools, colleges, health care and social service programs. College tuition would be higher, paychecks to state … 17

• Senate proposes spending less, cutting more

  April 12, 2011 in City, Region OLYMPIA – Senate spending plans for the next two years propose cuts for public schools, colleges, health care and social service programs. College tuition would be higher, paychecks to state …

• House approves two-year state budget

  April 10, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – House lawmakers on Saturday approved their version of the next two-year state budget, voting 53-43 in favor of a proposal that would slash $4.4 billion in state spending. … 10

• Spin Control: Let’s kick the canned phrase, lose the chant

  April 10, 2011 in City on Page B3 Ping-ponging between the sobering budget hearings and the raucous budget protests of the past week has left me with a desire to get the legislators and demonstrators to the negotiating …

• Obama unveils $3.73 trillion budget for 2012

  February 14, 2011 in Nation/World President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases. 55

• Governor’s proposed capital budget leaves off Spokane medical school

  January 27, 2011 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – A new medical school building in Spokane is not on the list of large construction projects being proposed by Gov. Chris Gregoire for the next two years, a … 9

• Clinics face crisis, CHAS chief says

  January 20, 2011 in City on Page A6 Looming state budget cuts threaten to unravel a network of Spokane health clinics that treat the region’s poorest people. Peg Hopkins, executive director of the Community Health Association of Spokane, … 4

• State withdraws Medicaid coverage for oral care

  January 4, 2011 in City on Page A1 Annmarie Dowd had all her teeth pulled a few weeks ago. Her dentist suggested she hurry up and have the procedure because as of Jan. 1 the state stopped providing … 61

• Higher-ed task force unveils list of solutions

  January 4, 2011 in City on Page A6 SEATTLE – A task force charged with finding stable money to pay for higher education in Washington state has some ideas it wants the Legislature to consider. At the top …

• Charities not likely to fill gaps

  January 2, 2011 in City on Page B7 OLYMPIA – When Gov. Chris Gregoire proposed a budget that cut many programs that help Washington state’s poor, she said that it was “up to us as a community” to … 2

• Year produced array of calculations, ideas, tired phrases

  January 2, 2011 in City on Page B1 It was a year when government budgets always hurt for money and initiative campaigns never did. When candidates seemed to come out of retirement, out of the woodwork or from … 1

• State earns bonus for child insurance

  December 28, 2010 in City on Page A5 A $17.6 million windfall from the federal government could prevent thousands of children in Washington from losing their health insurance in March if the state decides to spend the money … 5

• Schools will lose Salmon in Classroom

  December 26, 2010 in City on Page B2 SEATTLE – Each year, 40,000 schoolchildren in the state have been introduced to the life of the salmon through the Salmon in the Classroom program. But beginning in January, the …

• Deputy fire chief cut stirs furor

  December 19, 2010 in City on Page B1 The Spokane City Council’s decision last week to cut a deputy fire chief position has angered administrators and Mayor Mary Verner. “It was not discussed with me. It was not … 12

• State’s hodgepodge primary system is ignored – until it’s endangered

  December 19, 2010 in City on Page B3 OLYMPIA – One casualty of the state’s budget woes could be the 2012 presidential preference primary. It’s on the block in Gov. Chris Gregoire’s budget proposal, and a good fiscal … 2

• Caldwell: ‘Immoral’ cuts shine light on economic reality

  December 19, 2010 in Business on Page E1 Gov. Chris Gregoire did the moral and immoral in a single turn last week: She released a balanced budget for the 2011-’13 biennium. The 40-page summation is moral in that … 13

• Governor proposes MAC closure

  December 16, 2010 in City on Page A1 “Stunned,” “shocked” and “disappointed” were the words used by Chris Schnug, president of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture board, after learning that the governor’s 2011-’13 budget proposal calls … 2

• Gregoire’s budget lays out harsh cuts

    December 16, 2010 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Saying the state faces an economic crisis that requires deep cuts and government restructuring, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday proposed eliminating some state programs for schools and some … 32

• Liberty Lake makes progress on budget

  December 16, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page V1 In a special meeting Tuesday, the Liberty Lake City Council decided on what to do with $140,139 in funds it didn’t have when the proposed budget was written. The funds …

• Deal cuts hours, pay for state workers

  December 15, 2010 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Union leaders for state workers have agreed tentatively to cuts in wages and increases in health premiums for the next two years. Union officials and Gov. Chris Gregoire, … 16

• Gregoire urges changes in pensions, insurance

  December 14, 2010 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – The state should cut off automatic pension increases to some state retirees and keep others from retiring and being rehired for their old jobs, Gov. Chris Gregoire said … 4

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