Roundup: Med school, cutoff and budget

The Legislature enters the eighth week of its 105 day session today and as of this morning will spend the next 10 days voting bills off the floor of the House and Senate. Below you’ll find a few odds and ends to start the week.

  • You’ll find a listing of all bills that survived Friday’s cutoff for bills in budget committees here.
  • WSU alum Mikal Thomsen, co-founder and partner at Trilogy Equity Partners in Bellevue and owner of the Tacoma Rainiers, penned an op-ed on WSU’s medical school initiative for the Tacoma News Tribune here.
  • The Seattle Times made its case for higher education funding in an editorial this morning, found here.