Editorial Coverage

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a thoughtful editorial on the Governor's budget proposal in Friday's paper. We met with their editorial board the day before the Governor released her proposal. (You can watch my opening comments and count the amount of times I use a variation of "articulate"). Our primary focus was to brief them about the Progress Index, which encourages an analysis of the budget based on Washington values. This is from the PI editorial:

The solid grounding for a larger discussion about the future involves not just efficiencies but also looking at what we want for our state, whether spending supports our reasonable goals and whether we need more money to keep on track. The Washington State Budget & Policy Center has done excellent work in those areas. Its leaders call the governor's proposal "the starting point for the conversation."