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On Other Blogs Today: Special Session Saturday

By Erica C. Barnett December 9, 2010

1) The Seattle Condo Blog reports
that just 98 condos sold in November---a drop of 48.2 percent from the same period last year.

2)
The PI.com's Strange Bedfellows blog reports that Gov. Chris Gregoire will call legislators to Olympia for a special session to deal with the state budget shortfall Saturday.

3) In a split decision, the state supreme court has ruled that the state's formula for funding special education does not violate the constitution, the Olympian's Politics Blog reports
.

4)
At HA Seattle, Goldy editorializes against a Seattle Times' editorial opposing a deal struck by Gov. Chris Gregoire and state workers on health-care costs.

5) Crosscut's Knute Berger thinks
the state could save money by consolidating counties and making Seattle a county of its own.

6)
Washington State U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA, 6)  just landed the top Democratic slot on the House Appropriations Committee, the Seattle Times' Politics Northwest blog reports.
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