Now that Governor Gregoire has released her list of ways to cut another $2 to $4 billion from the state budget (in the hope that this cut-into-the-bone list will help people get interested in some new taxes), she and Department of Revenue director Suzan DelBene have turned their attention to revenue possibilities.  Faithful readers of…

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Scott White’s family. Scott was a great public servant who was in that line of work for all the right reasons.  He cared deeply and he cared enough to make good things actually happen.  The future of this state got a little dimmer when Scott died, and people…

Sit on a fence long enough and you end up with a fence post up your ass. So now is the time for everyone in Washington’s public university community—students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, administration, and trustees—to get off the fence and strongly support revenue solutions to the new state budget problem. With the ink still…