The Wash. state legislature’s in session, trying to somehow resolve the perfect storm of fiscal bad news. With fewer beat reporters covering state politics in Olympia (KIRO-TV’s “South Sound bureau” mostly covers crime-and-mayhem stories from that subregion), two online resources have emerged.

Let’s give a warm MISCmedia welcome to the independent nonprofit Olympia Newswire, and to the state-owned cable channel TVW’s cutely named blog, The Capitol Record.