SEATTLE — This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians — more than a quarter of the class — get a free ride.
With nearly all of the policy committees finished with their work ahead of Friday's cutoff deadline, it's a good time to check in with a few of the proposals that we've written about over the past few weeks and how they fared.
Teenagers in Washington state would have to find other ways to get that golden glow before prom under proposed legislation that would prohibit the use of indoor tanning beds by anyone under 18.
A bill requiring initiative sponsors to identify their top five contributors in campaign advertising passed on a party line vote in the House State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee last week.
State government spends more than $1 billion on goods and services a year – from computers to consultants – all of which soon might come under a single official and single set of rules.
A proposal to trim future outlays for state-funded pensions ran into a storm of criticism from retiree and labor groups last week, and the concept is in trouble at the Legislature.
The Washington State Patrol says it is saving some $12 million by linking to a federal radio network rather than building its own system to conform with federal requirements. But the upgrade might add new costs for other law-enforcement agencies that want to keep talking to the patrol.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
