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Confused by the five tax advisory Our Election Division and the legislative hotline are getting lots of calls on

Print reporters are doing audio, video, blogging, online writing, and doing bite-sized uber-fast stories as they transform into this New Media environment. The Olympian reporters, Adam Wilson and Brad Shannon, regularly include video with their stories. This legislative session, Adam Wilson is doing some hilarious sendups of the whole darned whacky Olympia scene. Here are three videos, a sort of survivor's guide to the Legislature ...

Will you help break the tie? College students and our voter outreach gurus split right down the middle when they were voting on a new lapel pin for their 2009 campus activities to encourage more student engagement, volunteerism and voting in their communities. (SecState Reed is touring more than 20 campuses this spring as part of the thing.) The Top 2 choices for you to consider are smoochy flag-lips ("Love your vote!") or a sleek op-arty VOTE. Which version do you like, remembering the target audience? [poll id="2"]

The big budget mess is affecting virtually every corner of Washington state government -- and we're getting ready. Cuts could be 20 percent or more, pretty darned painful in a smallish, task-driven service agency like this one. The Elections Division, Archives and their Digital Archives, state Library and their services to the blind, and the Corporations and Charities Division and their various programs, all are prepping for the budget knives.