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Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget office on Friday certified that more than $583 million in labor contract agreements for 2015-17 are financially “feasible.”

That determination frees Inslee to include the contracts in his proposed two-year budget, which is due for public release during the week of…

WASHINGTON’S Office of Financial Management recently warned the state’s public universities to expect severe budget cuts in the next fiscal year — possibly up to 15 percent. Much of the impetus for this threat comes from the state Supreme Court’s requirement that the Legislature live up to the…

When the great recession hit in 2008, most state legislators, including those in Washington, made up for a shortfall in revenue by cutting funding to higher education. That’s why college tuition skyrocketed over the past few years, often by double-digit amounts, at public colleges and…

Washington state lawmakers are facing a projected budget gap of more than $2 billion for the next two-year budget ending in mid-2017, in large part due to a new voter-approved initiative to shrink class sizes, according to a state budget outlook released Wednesday.

Will they be tempted? Will they be indifferent? Will they be calling home asking mom for pot money?

College students are returning to fall classes this week for the first time since marijuana retail stores opened near some college campuses.
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