From Stark
I’m guessing it will take awhile for interest groups, reporters and everybody else to figure out all the implications of a new biennial state budget that is on the brink of approval as I write this Tuesday, May 24.
The AFL-CIO’s news site, The Stand, carried blistering criticism of the budget deal. Brendan Williams, a former state representative, said Washington state government is in some ways worse than Wisconsin’s, where the stripping of collective bargaining rights from many state workers recently made national headlines. A restructuring aimed at cutting the cost of worker compensation was labeled “shameful.”
The Association of Washington Business lauded the worker comp changes but said more alterations are needed to keep the state’s businesses competitive.
Kids lose. It is the paramount duty of the State to provide for the AMPLE and EQUITABLE education of all students. They have failed to fulfill the basic provision of our State Constitution.
There is no other duty required of the State by the constitution. None.
Amen, Phranc.
Who will be hurt by spending cuts? The answer, of course, is “all of us.”
“Washington state’s greens and the gov: a partnership going up in smoke?
Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed a medical-marijuana bill, just the latest in a series of moves that distance her from progressives. What’s the value of having a Democratic governor who acts like a Republican?….
http://crosscut.com/2011/05/26/washington-governor/20949/Washington-state-s-greens-and-the-gov:-a-partnership-going-up-in-smoke-/
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Have no idea to agree or disagree. It must be lost in the lack of translation.