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Additional $1.2B hole in state revenue projected

By Andrew Garber, Seattle Times Olympia bureau   OLYMPIA — Officials were stunned to learn Thursday that the state is expected to take in $1.2 billion less in tax revenue than previously thought between now and June 2013, the latest grim result of an economy creeping toward recovery.   The bleak forecast means the state […]

House shocks administrators with 29% funding cuts

Washington State University will lose $151.4 million, about 29 percent of its current state funding base, under a proposed 2009-2011 House budget announced today by Ways and Means Chair Kelli Linville, D-Bellingham.   “Hard as it is to imagine, today’s House budget is even more draconian, with a more devastating impact, than the Senate budget […]