Timberline High School has three students in the August Wilson competition, Symphony Canady, Xavier Evans, and Aubrey Taylor, who happen to be the only African-American students in the Seattle finals.
With a looming $4 billion budget shortfall, the state seeks to keep the next biennium's budget as thin as possible. Here's a list of items likely to be cut.
There's still hope for state Republicans. According to columnist Joel Connelly, all the GOP needs to do is cut ties with its biggest backer — the Building Industry Association of Washington.