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Capitol kibbles

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Some FYI updates for you: --Hans Dunshee, the House construction budget guy, unveils a $3 billion ballot proposal for K-12 and coll

Re: Chop, slash, trim: Now construction budget gets knife

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Washington lawmakers plan to spend $3 billion on an assortment of "shovel-ready" construction projects across the state -- but because of our deep re

And what about them planes?

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Perhaps the biggest act of symbolism in the House and Senate budgets is a plan to mothball or sell off the state

airplanes. The

Chop, slash, trim: The sequel

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And now, the other shoe drops. Just a day after Senate Democrats unveiled their $31.3 billion two-year state budget plan, their brethren in the House D caucus have rolled out a competing plan. They aren't carbon copies.

Chop, slash, trim: The budget knives are out ...

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The Legislature's Democratic majorities are finally going public with their proposed budgets that close a $9 billion gap, a grim assortment of spending cuts in K-12, higher education, salaries, health and welfare, prisons, parks a