Posts by Bill Lyne

Being a state legislator has got to be a pretty crappy job. You get paid enough to qualify for public assistance, you have to abandon your home and family for two or three months a year, lobbyists and constituents assault you every fifteen minutes expecting you to fully understand and solve their problems, you spend…

The big news in Olympia last week was about the budget, but the real show was about tuition in the House Higher Ed committee.   No matter how you felt about the bill, you had to like the Senate floor debate on Senate Bill 6562.  That’s the bill that would have given some tuition-setting authority…

So now we’re at that place where what’s Right has to take a back seat to Right Now. This was budget week in Olympia, the week when 147 legislators hit the home stretch and started really galloping toward the finish line.  Here’s hoping they all make it there. As expected, both the Senate and House…