Yesterday's State of the State address is now online.
Here's some of the news coverage.
In the Seattle Times, Andrew Garber and Ralph Thomas lead with the governor's promise of fiscal restraint and compare it to last year's message.
The state's big spending days are over — at least for now, Gov. Christine Gregoire told lawmakers on Tuesday, urging them to sock away money for a possible recession.
Her annual State of the State Address was a marked turnaround from a year ago when she advocated a $4 billion increase in state spending and argued "the status quo in Washington is not good enough."
And in the Seattle PI, Chris McGann and Brian Slodysko lead with her assessment of what that new spending has meant.
Investments in education, the environment, transportation and children's health have made Washington much stronger than it was three years ago, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Tuesday in her annual State of the State address to the Legislature.
"We've come a long way, from tough times and dour prophecies, to put our state back on track toward a safe, prosperous, healthy future," Gregoire told lawmakers.
Here's the Spokesman-Review story by Rich Roesler, with this take-out from the speech that's reminiscent of the campaign ad of 2004 promising to "blast through the bureaucracy."
“We have rejected politics as usual, we have knocked down government barriers, and we have provided real change to help people,” she told lawmakers, tribal leaders and officials crowded into the state House of Representatives.
In the Olympian, Brad Shannon has a nice summary of GOP and Democratic responses. (Everyone references the Dino Rossi prequel.)
And they're off.
