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AGRICULTURE & WATER
Wet season building basin supply (Daily Sun)
Testimony begins on Hirst decision bills (Columbia Basin Herald)
Farming has bright future under Trump administration (Columbia Basin Herald)
Court ends probe into alleged effort to keep farmworker wages down (Yakima Herald)
BORDER STATES
Climate change poses multi-faceted threat to Oregon, report says (The Oregonian)
Oregon politicians take firm stance on immigration after President Donald Trump takes action to withhold federal funds (The Oregonian)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Boeing CEO voices support for Trump on business, talks China and U.S. jobs (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Bellingham manufacturer gets funding for workforce training (The Bellingham Herald)
BLOG: Government hiring still key to Kitsap job growth (Tad Sooter/Kitsap Sun)
EDITORIAL: Close to 250 jobs coming to Moses Lake (Columbia Basin Herald)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Spokane Army Maj. Scotty Smiley to address Republican retreat on invite of McMorris Rodgers (The Spokesman-Review)
Congressman updated on Aberdeen, Hoquiam flood plan (The Daily World)
EPA science under scrutiny by Trump political staff (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
OPINION: Reverse Obama’s ammunition ban on federal lands (David Cloe, state co-chairman of Hunting Works for Washington/The Spokesman-Review)
COLUMN: Here comes the deficit zombie (The Wenatchee World)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Pierce County lawsuit against Backpage.com alleges company edited underage sex ads (The News Tribune)
Washington State Penitentiary officer held in child sex investigation (Union-Bulletin)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Washington Republicans Say 'Fund Education First,' Democrats Vote 'No' (NW News Network)
Washington national board certified teachers fourth in nation (The Daily News)
EDITORIAL: Reducing ongoing tests could benefit education (Union-Bulletin)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
PSE hasn’t tracked abandoned gas lines; businesses want utility to pay for explosion (The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Inside Inslee’s carbon tax: A gift for king coal (Crosscut)
Are we ready for oil spills in the Salish Sea? (Crosscut)
Superfund cleanups not affected by EPA freeze on new contracts, officials say (The Spokesman-Review)
Navy hull cleaning sparks clean water lawsuit (Kitsap Sun)
Consultant: Methanol spill risks low (The Daily News)
Ericksen’s bill seeks to undo expansion of Cherry Point aquatic lands (The Bellingham Herald)
EDITORIAL: Grizzly proposal violates state law (Daily Sun)
FISH
Stream restoration projects in the Chehalis Basin provide jobs, learning opportunities and new habitat for salmon (The Daily World)
500,000 Cowlitz hatchery smolt vanish (The Daily News)
HANFORD
Potential chemical vapors reported at Hanford tank farms (Tri-City Herald)
HEALTH CARE
Trios Health launches virtual urgent care program (Tri-City Herald)
Trump’s plan and NCW’s 24,000 new Medicaid enrollees (The Wenatchee World)
Heritage secures guaranteed spots at WSU for aspiring pharmacists (Yakima Herald)
HOMELESSNESS
Puyallup council debates whether homeless committee should be public (The News Tribune)
IMMIGRATION
Trump’s immigration actions mark sharp shift in U.S. policy (AP/The Seattle Times)
Seattle ‘won’t be bullied,’ will fight Trump’s sanctuary-city order, mayor says (The Seattle Times)
As Trump targets ‘sanctuary cities,’ Seattle plans budget cuts (Crosscut)
City leaders believe Trump’s ‘sanctuary city’ order won’t apply to Spokane (The Spokesman-Review)
LEGISLATURE
Bill would increase speed limit to 75 mph on parts of I-90 (Daily Record)
EDITORIAL: Kudos to Microsoft for bold public-policy goals for Washington state (The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Clash between Roach and Talbert leads to silent audio during public meeting (The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Don’t allow Pam Roach to keep up abusive habits (The News Tribune)
MARIJUANA
BLOG: Washington cities tell lawmakers they don’t need new law to ban pot sales in problem areas (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
Washington, Oregon secretaries of state react to Trump voter fraud investigation (NW News Network)
EDITORIAL: Reforms needed to state’s presidential primary, other elections (The Everett Herald)
LEGISLATURE
State Dems eyeing power shift after Trump hires GOP senators (The Everett Herald)
LOCAL
16th District Democratic Party names leadership (Union-Bulletin)
STATE
Uncertainty at the state level on how Congress plans to replace ACA (Washington State Wire)
NATIONAL
Trump $137.5B infrastructure projects list includes bridges, rail, dams (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Trump seeks investigation into unproven voter-fraud claim (AP/The Seattle Times)
SECURITY
Spokane psychologist James Mitchell, who designed CIA torture program, agrees with Trump that harsher interrogation techniques needed (The Spokesman-Review)
Senate panel approves REAL ID compliance bill (AP/The News Tribune)
TRANSPORTATION
Tacoma Dome crawl among worst traffic bottlenecks in nation (The News Tribune)
Study: Seattle-Tacoma region has 5 of nation's top 21 traffic bottlenecks (Seattle P-I)
TRIBES
People facing disenrollment claim Nooksack Tribe is involved in a racket (The Bellingham Herald)
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