Fines are mounting against the state for not having a plan to ensure public schools are adequately funded.
Try as it might, Washington just can’t get this charter school thing down right.
Public schools are not just underfunded by the state as Washington’s Supreme Court has made abundantly clear.
When the state’s duly elected auditor disappears while in office does anyone notice beyond the shadow of the Capitol dome?
The session that would never end is still not over.
There’s nothing quite like the threat of a government shutdown July 1 to infuse urgency into negotiations on a new state budget.
State lawmakers are up for a raise in the next two years.
There was no pomp or ceremony on Thursday when Gov. Jay Inslee sat down with the Democrat and Republican leaders of the House and Senate to talk budget.
No one but Troy Xavier Kelley knows how long he will be the state auditor of Washington.
With the start of another year comes the promise of another session of the state Legislature and the prospect — no, make that a guarantee — of more laws.
The financial stakes of the state’s new marijuana industry are no longer theoretical.
