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Our much-liked State Senator Christine Rolfes has lived on Bainbridge Island for decades with her family. In this podcast, BCB catches Christine just before she departs for the State capitol for the January 12th start of the 2015 legislative session. This year’s session faces, once again, the legal requirement to find adequate funds for public education – which is the State’s paramount duty under the Washington Constitution. In this year's Senate session, Christine will be serving on three key legislative committees – including Education, plus Ways and Means (which handles all State spending measures), and Rules (which is the gatekeeper for all Bills seeking to reach the floor of the Senate). As you’ll see from the range of questions she addresses in this podcast, Christine Rolfes has a command of a remarkable array of issues important to Bainbridge Island, Kitsap, and our state as a whole. The numbers below tell the time in minutes and seconds that various topics are discussed in the podcast: 0:40How long d