Governor had solid agenda, but ...

A year from now, Gov. Chris Gregoire hopes to be riding shotgun in a big RV, headed to a national park somewhere with her husband, Mike.

Anywhere but Olympia, where she has spent her second — and last — term trying to pump money out of the dry well of the state budget, and watching the education and health programs she put in place go hungry, like kids she just can't feed.

"My agenda really was just set aside," Gregoire told me the other day, in an interview before she addressed a Seattle business group.