Governor releases budget video

Governor Gregoire will be releasing her recommendations to close the state's projected $2.6 billion budget deficit the week of December 7. Giving some insight into her thought process, the Governor and the Director of the state's budget office (Victor Moore) have teamed up to create a short video about the budget situation. Here is a link to that video (Hat tip Niki Reading of TVW). While no new ground was broken in the video, it is disappointing that two words were never mentioned: Government Reform. This is in contrast to the Governor's message last session that government must change the way it operates versus trying to find new revenues to continue the status quo . . . READ MORE