Our new favorite Republican here at the blog is Larry Haler. Representative Haler hails from Richland and has been sent to Olympia by the fine people in Washington’s 8th legislative district.  He also seems to be one of the few legislators who really gets it about the destruction of our state universities.   Representative Haler…

House Ways and Means Committee, January 13, 2010 Work Session: Presentation of the Governor’s 2010 supplemental operating budget proposal. For the entire hearing, visit this link. Mike Reilly… Bill Lyne… Sherry Burke… Marsh Riddle-Buly…

So the 2010 Washington State legislative session is a week old and already the writing is on the wall for our state universities.  Governor Gregoire summed it up in her state of the state address: “Our higher education system is a major economic engine for our recovery.

 We need to keep the doors to higher…