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AGRICULTURE & WATER
Washington state sees healthy snow pack levels (Yakima Herald)
OPINION: Washington apples making a comeback (Don Brunell/Daily Sun)
BORDER STATES
Shielded Native American sites thrust into debate over dams (AP/The Oregonian)
Disabled ABLE to save for future (The Columbian)
OPINION: Government should focus on serving real people, real needs (David Swayer, city administrator in Turner/The Oregonian)
BUDGET & TAXES
Inslee downplayed talk of taxes on the campaign trail. Then he proposed raising them by $5.5 billion (The Olympian)
19th District's Jim Walsh will try to retain Naselle Youth Camp in upcoming budget (The Chronicle)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Employers say higher state minimum wage hard on child care, food service, nonprofits (The Spokesman-Review)
Supporters say wage bump will help workers, economy (Kitsap Sun)
New wood technology may offer hope for struggling timber (AP/The Olympian)
OPINION: The peril of public banks (Michael Waite, Seattle-based finance professional who was a candidate for state treasurer last year/The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: Higher minimum wage will kill entry-level jobs and economic growth (Sue Lani Madsen/The Spokesman-Review)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
Fleet of volunteers keeps seniors and disabled on the roads of Key Peninsula (The News Tribune)
Mukilteo aerospace supplier has a social-service mission, too (The Everett Herald)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Republicans primed for push to dismantle Obama's policies (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
House Republicans vote to rein in independent ethics office (The Washington Post/The Everett Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee quietly spares killer with first death-row reprieve (The Seattle Times)
The decision to use lethal force is complicated and not universal (The Daily News)
Washington death-row inmate dies of cardiac arrest (The Seattle Times)
Western Washington arrests tied to Mexican drug cartel (The Everett Herald)
Safety Commission warns drivers about mixing drugs and alcohol (The Wenatchee World)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
National motorcycle club Guardians of the Children organizing student-led chapter in Spokane area to fight bullying in schools (The Spokesman-Review)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Mount Rainier to get new digital-warning system for massive mudflows (The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Washington state sees healthy snowpack levels (AP/Seattle P-I)
Feds begin process to stop Methow Valley mining (The Wenatchee World)
Orca death toll for 2016 includes Granny (Watching Our Waterways/Kitsap Sun)
DNR approves plan to expand Hood Canal nature areas (Kitsap Sun)
Ocean Shores targets Legislature for Jetty help (The Daily World)
OPINION: Brutal year sets back orca recovery (Erin Heydenreich, Deborah Giles, and Ken Balcomb, staff members of the Center for Whale Research/Crosscut)
HANFORD
Radioactive contamination spreading within Hanford plant (Tri-City Herald)
HEALTH CARE
Medicare launches revamp for heart attacks, hip fractures (AP/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Snohomish Health District expands medicine take-back program (The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: Congress should’t dump the Affordable Care Act (The Seattle Times)
HIGHER EDUCATION
Overtime soars to fix $100M software system for state’s community colleges (The Seattle Times)
State needs community colleges, needs to fund them, says system’s retiring chief (The Seattle Times/The Olympian)
Spokane’s community colleges still wrestling with ‘troubled’ software system (The Spokesman-Review)
HOMELESSNESS
EDITORIAL: Kindness is the common ground on helping homeless (The Chronicle)
LEGISLATURE
Put down that phone! Washington lawmakers seek crackdown on distracted driving (The Seattle Times)
Lawmakers seek to ban use of handheld devices by drivers (AP/Kitsap Sun)
EDITORIAL: Ethics board should enforce its rules (The Olympian)
EDITORIAL; Prove legal residency for drivers license - Sen. Curtis King is pitting legal state residents against illegal immigrants (Daily Sun)
MEDIA
Contract fights disrupt KIRO, KOMO service (The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
Seattle voters will soon get $100 in ‘democracy vouchers’ to donate to candidates (The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
McAuliffe steps down from state Senate, eyes council run (The Everett Herald)
COLUMN: Busting the myth of two Washingtons (Knute Berger/Crosscut)
STATE
EDITORIAL: Remove electoral college defectors (Daily Sun)
NATIONAL
COLUMN: Word of the year? It should have been ‘demagoguery’ (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
Officials: Customs system outage causes waits at airports (AP/The Seattle Times)
Capitol Way lane to close for 3 weeks because of construction (The Olympian)
Spokane Valley bolsters efforts on federal rail crossing funding (The Spokesman-Review)
Work begins on next phase of new Mukilteo ferry terminal (The Everett Herald)
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