This editorial will appear in Friday’s print edition.
The job’s not done yet, lawmakers. Now it’s highway time.
It’s great that the Legislature’s Republicans and Democrats finally settled on a state operating budget that reportedly directs an additional $1 billion to schools. We’re looking forward to seeing the details, where the devil often resides.
But the passage of an operating budget was always a foregone conclusion, despite the months of bickering over its specific provisions. The Washington Constitution requires the Legislature to approve one.
A genuine accomplishment of this Legislature – that includes you, Republican senators – would be passage …
