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Voting? Ballot box is in front of the AS Bookstore		2014-10-29
Dos, don'ts for WWU staff during election season		2014-10-27
Cost of readjusting pay, health care for state employees after Great Recession may top $583M	The new cost of implementing labor contracts for Washington state employees and home care aides in next year’s state budget might exceed $583 million. That includes wage increases and keeping health care coverage roughly the same as today. How much more of a challenge that adds to next…	2014-10-13
Future of state, higher ed on table at Munro Seminar		2014-10-02
State government’s biggest union ratifies contracts for pay raises totaling 4.8% over two years	It turns out that 4.8 percent pay raises over two years are acceptable to Washington state employees after a six-year run without general wage adjustments.	2014-10-01
Officials’ texts are just another form of public record	Technology advances so rapidly that public policy often can’t keep up. That’s what’s happening with electronic messaging, particularly as it pertains to texting and public open records law. Texting has quickly become pervasive in society, and many public officials find it a useful way to…	2014-09-29
Earl Overstreet named to WWU Board of Trustees		2014-09-25
What would 15% cut mean for state’s colleges?	Double-digit tuition increases. Class cuts that would make it harder to finish a degree in four years. Enrollment cutbacks that would make it more difficult to get admitted to a state university. Washington’s public college and university presidents, warning that a…	2014-09-23
Legal pot still banned on Bellingham’s college campuses	The first recreational marijuana stores in Bellingham opened with long lines and much fanfare this July, but college officials say legal marijuana hasn’t had much effect on local campuses. As Western Washington University begins classes on Wednesday, Sept. 24, the…	2014-09-22
State worker pay drought over? State employee union deal offers raises of 3%, 1.8%	The Washington Federation of State Employees has reached a tentative two-year labor agreement with Gov. Jay Inslee’s bargaining team that will raise most state agency workers’ pay by 3 percent next July and approximately 1.8 percent in 2016.	2014-09-19

Voting? Ballot box is in front of the AS Bookstore

2014-10-29

Dos, don'ts for WWU staff during election season

2014-10-27

Cost of readjusting pay, health care for state employees after Great Recession may top $583M

The new cost of implementing labor contracts for Washington state employees and home care aides in next year’s state budget might exceed $583 million. That includes wage increases and keeping health care coverage roughly the same as today.

How much more of a challenge that adds to next…

2014-10-13

Future of state, higher ed on table at Munro Seminar

2014-10-02

State government’s biggest union ratifies contracts for pay raises totaling 4.8% over two years

It turns out that 4.8 percent pay raises over two years are acceptable to Washington state employees after a six-year run without general wage adjustments.

2014-10-01

Officials’ texts are just another form of public record

Technology advances so rapidly that public policy often can’t keep up. That’s what’s happening with electronic messaging, particularly as it pertains to texting and public open records law.

Texting has quickly become pervasive in society, and many public officials find it a useful way to…

2014-09-29

Earl Overstreet named to WWU Board of Trustees

2014-09-25

What would 15% cut mean for state’s colleges?

Double-digit tuition increases. Class cuts that would make it harder to finish a degree in four years. Enrollment cutbacks that would make it more difficult to get admitted to a state university.

Washington’s public college and university presidents, warning that a…

2014-09-23

Legal pot still banned on Bellingham’s college campuses

The first recreational marijuana stores in Bellingham opened with long lines and much fanfare this July, but college officials say legal marijuana hasn’t had much effect on local campuses.

As Western Washington University begins classes on Wednesday, Sept. 24, the…

2014-09-22

State worker pay drought over? State employee union deal offers raises of 3%, 1.8%

The Washington Federation of State Employees has reached a tentative two-year labor agreement with Gov. Jay Inslee’s bargaining team that will raise most state agency workers’ pay by 3 percent next July and approximately 1.8 percent in 2016.

2014-09-19