From tomorrow's paper:Citing the state's budget woes, prison officials want to close Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women, Washington's only women's prison east of the Cascade Mountains.As early as next summer, the state would start transferring roughly 350 inmates to a prison near Vancouver. About…
The largest state-workers' union, the Washington Federation of State Employees, filed a lawsuit today against Gov. Chris Gregoire for not including workers' cost-of-living increases in her budget proposal.This fall, Gregoire's office negotiated cost-of-living increases averaging about 2 percent a year for workers over the next…
"Compact snow and ice" is a familiar cautionary refrain to winter drivers, but in Seattle, it's apparently what city road crews are striving for.The Seattle Times has a story about this today, quoting a city transportation official as saying that the goal in hilly Seattle…
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