Legislative Branch

Master builder Womack also cares about people (Midland Reporter-Telegram)

20 Jul 2008

-Odessa native, just named president of state engineers' group, says West Texas loyalty more important than big city success

State lawmakers travel despite deficit (Norwalk Advocate)

20 Jul 2008

House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, R-Norwalk, has spent much of the summer railing against fuel prices and urging the legislature's Democrat-majority to lower the state's gas tax to give constituents a break at the pump.

New branch campus in Snohomish County doesn't appear in UW's plans (Everett Herald)

20 Jul 2008

But lawmakers say they haven't given up on pursuing the campus. A four-year college in Snohomish County isn't dead because the University of Washington makes no mention of it in a plan released this week, backers said Friday.