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The Bellingham Public Development Authority and its executive director, Jim Long, are scrambling to make some progress on the development of city-owned real estate parcels, to show Mayor Kelli Linville and City Council that the independent entity is worth saving.

Former Mayor Dan Pike…

Today, the Democratic-controlled Washington House will likely pass the $34.5 billion 2013-2015 budget it unveiled two days ago.

The House's Republican minority will gripe and make symbolic gestures against the size of that budget, complaining that it is too…

The Democratic-controlled Washington House wants to raise an extra $1.34 billion by extending expiring taxes and closing tax exemptions. That would pay for $1.3 billon in court-mandated extra education spending in 2013-2015.

"We're proposing to put…

The Legislature's constitutionally mandated final day of this year's 105-day session is April 28. But with a $1.2 billion budget disagreement between the GOP coalition in the Senate and the Democrats in the House, many legislators are wondering if a special session will be needed.…

Gov. Jay inslee showed us his. Thirty state senators showed us theirs.

This week, House Democrats will unveil their own version of the state's 2013-15 operating budget — somewhere in the neighborhood of $33 billion. That unveiling will be followed by one or…

“Relentlessly innovative,” at the very least, is something we should try to be, says the gregarious president of Western Washington University Bruce Shepard. Innovative is what Washington’s public universities must be and what Western strives for. Try something new, fail if you must, then try…

Each fall, thousands of students from overseas apply to study at the University of Washington and other state schools. So why not charge them extra, then use that money to help solve higher education’s funding woes?

That’s the thinking behind a new Senate bill that…