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.

So if you’d called your bookie a month ago and said, I’ve got a thousand bucks that says the United States Congress will pass sweeping health care reform before the Washington State Legislature will pass a supplemental state budget, you probably could have gotten pretty good odds. Unlike their big brothers and sisters in D.C., the Republicans…