BORDER STATES
BLOG: April state tax revenues fall 4.1% below forecast, putting state about even for year (Betsy Z. Russell/The Spokesman-Review)
BUDGET & TAXES
COLUMN: McCleary court is right both constitutionally and politically (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Custodial interference (The Columbian)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Taxicab drivers urge Tacoma to regulate rideshares (The News Tribune)
Boeing’s Charleston crew set to earn catch up bonus (The Seattle Times)
Two Gig Harbor programs earn state honors for economic development (Kitsap Sun)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
OPINION: No one should be going hungry in Pierce County (Helen McGovern-Pilant, executive director of the Emergency Food Network/The News Tribune)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
BLOG: Bill to rein in NSA surveillance zips through key committee on its way to vote (Emily Parkhurst/Puget Sound Business Journal)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
EDITORIAL: Case against executions doesn’t hinge on Lockett (The News Tribune)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Alternative methods, same goal for Yakima Valley school districts (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Pierce County schools face shortage of substitute teachers (The News Tribune)
Barb Page is Aberdeen Teacher of the Year (The Daily World)
Olympia School District to expand offerings, support for gifted students (The Olympian)
Group honors local high school students for STEM work (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Sunnyside High School placed on state priority list (Daily Sun News)
Edmonds School District mulls keeping senior project (The Everett Herald)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Worse than average Washington wildfire season forecast (AP/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Offshore wind project of Seattle firm snags $47M from feds (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Feds issue emergency order on crude oil trains (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
Calgary firm purchases gas export terminal near Ferndale (The Bellingham Herald)
Seattle firm wins federal money for floating wind-farm project (The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Make refineries safer after Tesoro explosion (The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Could local cities provide equitable Internet access? (The Olympian)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Moose video draws warning from wildlife agency (The Wenatchee World)
GUN RIGHTS
Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland on universal background checks (The News Tribune)
COLUMN: Second Amendment in real time boils down to politics (Jerry Large/The Seattle Times)
HEALTH CARE
BLOG: Swedish’s price cuts attract attention in California (Valerie Bauman/Puget Sound Business Journal)
EDITORIAL: Information is needed about fatal birth defect (Yakima Herald-Republic)
HIGHER EDUCATION
UW wary as WSU examines its own medical school (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Walla Walla Community College wrestles with budget crunch (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
WSU offers online agriculture master’s degree (Tri-City Herald)
EDITORIAL: Sadly, state of Washington led nation in college costs (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
IMMIGRATION
EDITORIAL: Protect rights, don’t ignore them (The Wenatchee World)
LEGISLATURE
EDITORIAL: Give citizens opportunity to be heard in Olympia (The Spokesman-Review)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Clark County panel gives nod to water, newspaper fees (The Columbian)
City wins $1.3 million in floodplain grants (Daily Record)
Commissioner Cormier pushes to create smaller hospital district (The Daily World)
Environmentalists slam slaughterhouse rules; Whatcom council delays vote (The Bellingham Herald)
Whatcom farmers face resistance on formation of taxing districts (The Bellingham Herald)
OPINION: Bellingham City Council offers many options for public interaction (Marie Marchand, Bellingham City Council legislative assistant/The Bellingham Herald)
MARIJUANA
Grandview, Selah to be sans pot retailers; 1 applicant left in Sunnyside (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Pot lottery winners already cashing in (The Seattle Times)
Franklin County commissioners take no action on pot moratorium (Tri-City Herald)
Neighbors object to marijuana business (Daily Record)
Pot growers convince Douglas County to consider higher fences (Daily Record)
Colorado lawmakers approve plan for pot banking (AP/The News Tribune)
Seattle credit union moves toward serving marijuana growers (The News Tribune)
Judge: Longview’s marijuana lottery results can be released (The Daily News)
No takers for single pot license in Monroe (The Everett Herald)
High finance: Pot entrepreneur sells spot in lottery for big cash (Kitsap Sun)
Marijuana 101 takes place tomorrow (Daily Sun News)
BLOG: Buying in: A marijuana lottery loser gets back into the game (Puget Sound Business Journal)
OPINION: 4 keys to moving forward with marijuana reform (Pete Holmes, Seattle’s City Attorney/Crosscut)
MILITARY
JBLM headquarters needs more soldiers, audit says (The Bellingham Herald)
Naval Station Everett to hold security exercise (The Everett Herald)
OPEN GOVERNMENT
State auditor: Pasco City Council email use did not violate state law (Tri-City Herald)
OSO LANDSLIDE
Granite Falls campground threatened by landslide (The Bellingham Herald)
Mudslide fire department aids Afghanistan victims (AP/The Olympian)
Popular campground faces slide threat, with ‘potential for loss of life’ (The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
Filing week for local, state offices begins Monday (The Daily News)
COLUMN: 2014 election season officially gets under way next week (Jerry Cornfield/The Everett Herald)
LEGISLATURE
Yakima’s Norm Johnson, other lawmakers seeking election, re-election (Yakima Herald-Republic)
BLOG: Angel Endorses Sheldon (Kitsap Sun)
LOCAL
Whatcom prosecutor to seek 11th term, most in state (The Bellingham Herald)
COLUMN: Leftward Ho, Seattle! (David Brewster/Crosscut)
EDITORIAL: Learn from bond rejection (The Everett Herald)
STATE
Kilmer will see familiar challenger (Kitsap Sun)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Worker Memorial Day 2014 (Washington State Wire)
Hatcheries on hold (Skagit Valley Herald)
TRANSPORTATION
Transit agency to pay $43M to UW for vibration (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
$43 million deal to move UW labs for light-rail line (The Seattle Times)
Washington State Ferries planning a vastly different Colman Dock (Kitsap Sun)
TRIBES
Soundings: Thoughts on Billy Frank Jr. while weeding and planting (The Olympian)
BLOG: Publisher Frank Blethen reflects on Billy Frank Jr.’s passing (Frank Blethen/The Seattle Times)
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