Posts by Bill Lyne

Just as surely as spring melts into summer, just as caterpillars inevitably emerge as butterflies, the 2010 legislative session has ended (a little late) and the election season has begun. Our elected representatives and those who aspire to be our elected representatives have transformed from stately and distinguished leaders and policy makers into hustlers haunting…

A Big UFWS thanks to everyone in the state legislature who had the courage to raise the revenue to keep vital state services available in Washington. For Washington’s public state universities, the news in the 2010 supplemental state budget was bad, but it could have been worse. After months of concern and threat, funding for…

A tip of the blog hat to TVW and Inside Olympia for giving us college folks a chance to explain ourselves.  Mike Bay, TVW Director of Programming, and Austin Jenkins, Inside Olympia host and consensus lead dog of Olympia reporters, are both gents of the highest caliber.  Link to TVW.