AGRICULTURE & WATER
Irrigation district mulling revenue bonds to pay to bring Columbia River water to Odessa Subarea (Tri-City Herald)
Benton, Franklin counties named third-, fourth-most valuable farming communities in Washington (Tri-City Herald)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Boeing got huge tax breaks, state got no job guarantees (The Everett Herald)
Boating season report: Yacht sales are up, shipyards seek workers (Puget Sound Business Journal)
More jobs! Verizon Wireless hiring 141 in Western WA (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Alaska Air Group raises wages for bottom-tier workers, won’t say if connected to new wage laws (Puget Sound Business Journal)
The Clippers to Seattle is a long shot, at best (The Seattle Times)
Local craft beer hops into market (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
OPINION: $15 per hour: How’s that going to work for you, Seattle? (Richard Pelto/Crosscut)
COLUMN: Seattle off to promising start on plan to raise minimum wage (Jerry Large/The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: Unions are back with city-by-city wage campaign (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: An economic gamble in Seattle as $15 minimum wage becomes reality (The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Boeing lands a hard truth (The Columbian)
EDITORIAL: Political slogans crowd out reason on minimum wage (The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Boeing: NW’s fickle partner (The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: Boeing’s plan to ship jobs out of state unfortunate (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
High court ruling favors prayer at council meeting (AP/The Columbian)
Clark College hosts State Supreme Court (The Columbian)
Call for layered fix for human trafficking (The Columbian)
Law officers receive state’s top honor (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
EDITORIAL: A conversation about Valley’s crime realities and perceptions (Yakima Herald-Republic)
DAMS
Grant PUD completes Priest Rapids Fish Bypass (Columbia Basin Herald)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Common Core tests emphasize critical thought process (Kitsap Sun)
Walla Walla schools part ways with online learning program (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
A day for constructive education (The Olympian)
OPINION: Loss of $40 million education waiver hits Latino students hard (Mike Sotelo, chairman of the King County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of Consolidar/The Seattle Times)
OPINION: School discipline needs to keep students learning (Roberta J. Wilburn, associate dean for graduate studies in Education & Diversity Initiatives, Whitworth University, and Daniel S. Ophardt, staff attorney and Northwestern University School of Law public interest fellow, TeamChild/The Spokesman-Review)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
State oil trains run into heavy opposition (The News Tribune)
COLUMN: Oil and the Harbor don’t mix (Doug Barker/The Daily World)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Study: Mercury in Mount Rainier National Park fish (The Chronicle)
China’s thirsty coal industry guzzles precious water (The Seattle Times)
Own a decrepit boat? State begins derelict vessel turn-in program (AP/The Seattle Times)
PUD begins Harbor paper cleanup (The Daily World)
BLOG: Gov. Jay Inslee climate-change effort should let critics speak (Erik Smith/The Seattle Times)
OPINION: The Rock Doc: Plastic bags could become biofuel source (E. Kirsten Peters, a native of the rural Northwest, was trained as a geologist at Princeton and Harvard universities/The Spokesman-Review)
GAMBLING
Legislative committee gives casino idea a hearing (The Columbian)
GUN RIGHTS
High court rejects appeal on gun rights in public (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
EDITORIAL: Run checks on all buyers at Dome gun shows (The News Tribune)
HEALTH CARE
Drug program for young offenders might be victim of health care reform (Kitsap Sun)
4 more insurers want to join state health exchange (The Seattle Times)
Hepatitis C drug’s cost pits state vs. insurer (The News Tribune)
County could get first in-patient hospice service (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: E-cigarettes and the public’s health (Columbia Basin Herald)
HIGHER EDUCATION
LCC’s new nursing degree expands higher education opportunities for local nurses (The Daily News)
Evergreen gets $500,000 to build fiber arts studio (The Olympian)
BLOG: State’s tuition hike in recession was nation’s second-highest (Katherine Long/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Editorial: UI and WSU named on tough list, but campus safety is crucial goal (The Spokesman-Review)
EDITORIAL: A partnership for higher ed (The Everett Herald)
IMMIGRATION
Ruling spurs counties to release immigrants who are eligible, ignoring feds’ requests (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
COLUMN: Congressional inaction fuels immigration falsehoods (Greg Jayne/The Columbian)
LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS
Eastside property owners sue over proposed power-line route (The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Opening town council meetings with prayer does not violate Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court says (Oregonian)
Seattle City Council takes up minimum wage plan (AP/The News Tribune)
Pierce County’s plan to raze hospital draws opposition (The News Tribune)
Major county changes looming (Daily Record)
Narrows Marina boat launch: Dark, deadly and unregulated (The News Tribune)
COLUMN: Ruling panning Spokane mayor’s fire department shuffle may not reach police (Shawn Vestal/The Spokesman-Review)
MARIJUANA
Pot store lottery winners released (Daily Record)
Winners in the retail pot store lottery announced (Wenatchee World)
Marijuana lottery: Winners and losers in Seattle (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Pot shop lottery shows Kitsap’s likely to be toward south (Kitsap Sun)
Marijuana retail license lottery chooses six Twin Cities applicants (The Chronicle)
Results released for pot license lottery (The Everett Herald)
State names top Skagit picks in marijuana retail license lottery (Skagit Valley Herald)
State marijuana lottery awards licenses to stores on Myra Road (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
89 Clark County applicants vie to become state’s first marijuana retailers (Oregonian)
Pot stores one step closer to becoming reality (The Daily World)
EDITORIAL: Bureau of Reclamation should not restrict water to Eastern Washington marijuana farms (The Seattle Times)
OPEN GOVERNMENT
Judge: C-Tran email can remain a secret (The Columbian)
OSO LANDSLIDE
Hundreds celebrate the lives of two lost in slide (The Everett Herald)
Granite Falls school coin drive raises $600 for Oso (The Everett Herald)
Dealership offering cars, repairs to victims of Oso slide (The Everett Herald)
Catholic church in Arlington supports families, no matter their faith (The Everett Herald)
County opens new disaster information office in Darrington (The Everett Herald)
Two Darrington students dedicated countless hours in aftermath (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: ‘Highway 530 slide’ is more accurate (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: Our public servants deserve recognition (Tracey A. Thompson, Teamsters Local 117/The Everett Herald)
POLITICS
LEGISLATURE
BLOG: Candidates still deciding on 4th District seats (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
STATE
Republicans, DelBene camp clash over gender pay disparity (The Seattle Times)
Herrera Beutler to host jobs fair, job-hunting workshop (The Columbian)
Herrera Beutler pulling in donations (The Columbian)
SUPREME COURT
EDITORIAL: Governor adds diversity to state Supreme Court (The Olympian)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Agencies’ debate about definition of Amon Wasteway complicates development (Tri-City Herald)
Father sues DSHS over death of daughter (The Olympian)
TRANSPORTATION
BNSF budgets $235 million for East Side rail lines (The Spokesman-Review)
OPINION: Restoring faith in transportation policymaking (Brendan Williams/The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: In defense of the toll collector (Kitsap Sun)
TRIBES
EDITORIAL: Rattlesnake Mountain tours should continue (Tri-City Herald)
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