OLYMPIA -- Only 11 days left in the regular session, but that doesn't mean there are no new ideas floating around. Senate Democrats unveiled a trio of bills that would put more money into schools through a capital gains tax on the upper-upper income and rearrange the levy system. Senate Republicans may have a plan of their on in the afternoon. 

The state treasurer and the superintendent of public instruction may announce still another plan on Thursday.

Gov. Jay Inslee  has said he expects any budget deal would have some new revenue (which is to say, a tax increase). Senate Republicans are so far sticking to their guns that it isn't needed.

And the flags are at half-staff ... not because it's the deadline for filing your federal income tax, but to mark the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's death.