AGRICULTURE & WATER
Cherry crop looking mighty sweet (Tri-City Herald)
New program could mean more money for Yakima Basin projects (Yakima Herald-Republic)
BORDER STATES
Wandering Oregon wolf has pups in Cascade Range (AP/Seattle P-I)
BUDGET & TAXES
OPINION: Ballmer and equity in the NW (John Burbank, Economic Opportunity Institute/The Everett Herald)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Applications up slightly for US jobless aid (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
U.S. trade deficit hits two-year high; consumer spending boosts imports, but economic weakness abroad hurts exports (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Boeing drone unit’s new headquarters will help in move toward civilian market (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Seattle’s minimum-wage win spurs talk to target more cities (The Seattle Times)
Donald Sterling steps out of way in Ballmer’s $2 billion deal for Clippers (The Seattle Times)
Walmart workers among demonstrators at Lynnwood store (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: Women-unfriendly Seattle must fix its status as the 73-cent city (Jean Godden, Seattle City Council/Crosscut)
COLUMN: ‘Crowdfunding’ the future with solar roads? (Laura Gjovaag/Daily Sun News)
EDITORIAL: Economy depends on labor (The Everett Herald)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Immigration reform protesters ‘occupy’ Rep. Hastings’ office in Pasco (Tri-City Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Offenses up 35 percent at Moses Lake Sand Dunes (Columbia Basin Herald)
Police-chief nominee O’Toole glides through confirmation hearing (The Seattle Times)
Sheriff issues memo addressing arbitrator sex-on-duty ruling (The Spokesman-Review)
Long-sought fugitive who escaped Bainbridge by kayak arrested in Oregon (Kitsap Sun)
EDITORIAL: Prison until death is cruel, unusual for 13-year-old (The News Tribune)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Washington governor passes wildfire safety test (The Chronicle)
EDITORIAL: Early trend: Active wildfire season ahead (Daily Record)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
$120,000 raise OK’d for City Light’s top job (The Seattle Times)
Vancouver City Council opposes oil train terminal (AP/Oregonian)
Railroads seek to limit disclosure on oil trains (AP/The Columbian)
Railroad company says oil train information should be confidential (The Everett Herald)
BLOG: Should shipments of oil by rail be kept secret from the public? (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
EDITORIAL: Obama’s coal plan catches up with climate policy in Olympia (The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Inslee: Fires will worsen without emission control (The Spokesman-Review)
Kalama company reaches deal with EPA over clean air practices (The Daily News)
BLOG: WSDOT update on fish passage barriers (Christina Salerno/TVW)
OPINION: All economic pain, no environmental gain (Nicolas Loris, The Heritage Foundation’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow specializing in energy and environmental issues/The Heritage Foundation/The Olympian)
OPINION: Don’t buy the smear of the EPA (Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council/Los Angeles Times/The Olympian)
GAY RIGHTS
Gay marriage: Supreme Court declines to halt same-sex marriages in Oregon (Oregonian)
HEALTH CARE
More than 100 killed selves via Death with Dignity law (The Olympian)
Data discrepancies found in health sign-ups (AP/The Columbian)
HIGHER EDUCATION
Patty Murray: ‘Crushing’ college costs hurt students, economy (The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
BLOG: Beleaguered insurance judge to speak at upcoming Senate session (Carol M. Ostrom/The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bellingham’s 6-year transportation project list up for hearing (The Bellingham Herald)
Federal Way makes $32M bet to spiff up downtown with performing arts center (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Top county managers given 10% raises despite tight budget (The Everett Herald)
Everett council embarks on long journey to balanced budget (The Everett Herald)
Graham Fire & Rescue overpaid for buyouts, audit finds (The News Tribune)
Ed Barnes will fill unexpired term on Clark County Board of Commissioners (Oregonian)
BLOG: MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ goes with the wrong Steinbrueck (Jim Brunner/The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: After the socialist music stopped (Jonathan Martin/The Seattle Times)
MARIJUANA
Is marijuana less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco? (Oregonian)
Walla Walla pot growing applicant withdraws (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
COLUMN: Trouble with unleashing pot goodies on new users (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times/The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Marijuana business finds way into Valley (Yakima Herald-Republic)
EDITORIAL: Isaacs Avenue pot farm? Wow, Legislature needs to take control (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
MILITARY
Medal of Honor recipient shares story with Lakewood students (The News Tribune)
Kilmer hears Tacoma veterans’ VA frustrations (The News Tribune)
COLUMN: D-Day on the home front — anxiety, exhilaration and prayer (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
POLITICS
LOCAL
Lacey: council seeks to fill vacancies on historical commission, parks board (The Olympian)
City ordered to give more details about parks initiative (Crosscut)
STATE
Congressional candidate Celis embraces the positive in his life story (The Everett Herald)
PRIVACY
Chinese media attack U.S. ‘pawns,’ aka Google, Microsoft et al. (Puget Sound Business Journal)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Liquor board reverses course on discounts to restaurants (The Olympian)
Liquor board: Volume discount sales of booze is OK (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
State gives its State Patrol project near Capitol an environmental green light (The Olympian)
Gov. Inslee honors 20 agency managers for good work (The Olympian)
Lottery officials: $230K Hit 5 prize is unclaimed, about to expire (AP/The Seattle Times)
State park, fishing fees waived this weekend (The Columbian)
Ferry director candidates down to final two (Kitsap Sun)
Former Pierce executive John Ladenburg is finalist for state’s top ferries job (The News Tribune)
BLOG: Washington health insurance exchange CIO resigns (Patrick Marshall/The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
Reaction cool to proposed Sound Transit rail-yard sites (The Seattle Times)
Lawmakers discuss new bridge effort (The Columbian)
Three weeks later, derailment still not cleaned up (Montesano Vidette)
BLOG: The making of a ferry: M/V Samish comes to life at Seattle’s Harbor Island (Karen Ducey/Puget Sound Business Journal)
EDITORIAL: Time to speak your mind about improving I-5 traffic (The Olympian)
TRIBES
Yakamas to celebrate treaty signing (Yakima Herald-Republic)
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