Three percent. That’s the number you’ve heard. The reality is something more like ten to fourteen percent. When Governor Gregoire released her budget proposal last week, her staff sent a spreadsheet to higher education stakeholders describing the net cut to state universities as about 3%. They arrived at this number by cutting state appropriations to…

Governor Gregoire faced the press last Wednesday and told them that her 2011-13 budget proposal didn’t reflect her values, but that the voters had spoken, she had heard them, and she was “honoring” them with her all-cuts budget. Being the mostly unreconstructed lefties we are here at the blog, we might have chosen to say…

Our new favorite administrator here at the blog is University of Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward. Mr. Woodward, a Bayou State native who followed Mark Emmert from LSU to UW, created quite a brouhaha last week when he stated the obvious, saying that the University of Oregon’s Nike-funded athletic program is first-rate while its state-funded academic…