Shauna Sowersby

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Shauna Sowersby |Conrad Swanson

OLYMPIA — Escalating tensions around cuts for Washington’s budget and potential furloughs boiled over Wednesday afternoon as hundreds of workers stormed into the state Capitol building to pick a fight. Early in the afternoon, members of the Washington State Federation of State Employees — who had been protesting on the Capitol lawn in Olympia — began making their way into the Statehouse. The group is at loggerheads with Gov.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Shauna Sowersby |Conrad Swanson

OLYMPIA — Escalating tensions around cuts for Washington’s budget and potential furloughs boiled over Wednesday afternoon as hundreds of workers stormed into the state Capitol building to pick a fight. Early in the afternoon, members of the Washington State Federation of State Employees — who had been protesting on the Capitol lawn in Olympia — began making their way into the Statehouse. The group is at loggerheads with Gov.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Shauna Sowersby

Washington library programs are facing potentially “devastating consequences” after receiving notification last week that federal funding has been eliminated for programs like libraries at state prisons and support for rural and tribal libraries. The Washington State Library, which operates a reading room in Olympia and specialized branches like the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, distributes grant money to Institutional Library Services.

2 weeks ago | yakimaherald.com | Shauna Sowersby

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2 weeks ago | chronline.com | Shauna Sowersby

OLYMPIA — It's that time in the legislative session when budgets are out, the countdown to the final day is on and more bills are dead after yet another cutoff in the Legislature. Wednesday marked the cutoff date for policy bills from the opposite house of origin to pass out of committee, but the pace (and the drama) will increase as the next few weeks of session unfold. Things are already getting spicy. Gov.