AGRICULTURE & WATER
Senior water right holders OK’d for appeal (Daily Record)
County water district gets $24K planning grant (Daily Record)
With strawberries showing up early, Washington is having a berry good year (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Red Mountain project reservoirs to pump Yakima River water almost finished (Tri-City Herald)
BUDGET & TAXES
Washington Supreme Court orders state to contempt hearing (NW News Network)
Higher education could be tapped for state budget (AP/Seattle P-I)
BLOG: High court may find lawmakers in contempt of school funding order (The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: California lesson: Education is more than money (The News Tribune)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Starbucks will pay tuition for many employees to finish college (The Seattle Times)
Starbucks to pay for workers to finish college (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Starbucks plans tuition reimbursement program for 135,000 eligible workers (AP/Oregonian)
Machinists, aerospace engineers out – for now – on new Boeing health plan options (Puget Sound Business Journal)
What the new Boeing health care deals means for employees, UW and Providence/Swedish (Puget Sound Business Journal)
China says ‘no’ to Chinese aircraft, buys Boeing (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Turkish Airlines finalizes order for 15 Boeing 737 Max planes (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Seattle home sales dipped 12% in past year (Puget Sound Business Journal)
U.S. Open a year away, anticipation grows at Chambers Bay (The Olympian)
U.S. Development applies for permits for oil facility (The Daily World)
BLOG: Sunday Spin: WA No. 1 for ‘making a living’ (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
OPINION: Press Talk: The guv’s big decision on … [oil terminal] (Lou Brancaccio/The Columbian)
COLUMN: Franchise holders feel bite from both sides (Jerry Large/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Good solution for Seattle’s new minimum wage law (Tri-City Herald)
EDITORIAL: Higher skill level trumps higher minimum wage (Yakima Herald-Republic)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
Homeless youth in Shelton: No place to go (Crosscut)
EDITORIAL: The Northwest’s Holocaust Museum – Learning from indifference (The Everett Herald)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Will Eric Cantor defeat hurt Boeing’s export sales? (Puget Sound Business Journal)
OPINION: Make online businesses collect tax (Brenda Klein, Alderwood Mall general manager/The Everett Herald)
OPINION: Health insurance tax is a small-business killer (T.J. Reilly, Oregon Small Business Association/Oregonian)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Washington suit vs. grocery group proceeds (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Court to hear appeal over Paine Field passenger flights (The Everett Herald)
Assault on staff reported at Washington State Penitentiary (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Another Washington three-strikes offender wins clemency recommendation (NW News Network)
Juvenile life sentence will be redone (The Olympian)
Adoption law change opens access to birth certificates (The Vidette)
Washington Attorney General’s Office to 5-Hour Energy: Give us the formula (Seattle P-I)
GPS tracking case has left unsettled questions (AP/The Olympian)
Security at next year’s US Open a concern to local officials (The News Tribune)
BLOG: Grocery manufacturers fail to squelch money-laundering lawsuit (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
EDITORIAL: Heroin death charging decision an effective deterrent (The Chronicle)
EDITORIAL: Best kept behind bars (The Daily News)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
South Sound schools set to shrink class sizes for youngest (The News Tribune)
Teacher helps seventh-graders outline paths to college (The Everett Herald)
Attorney General probe of Centralia schools nears end (The Chronicle)
Home-schooling parents rally against Common Core (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
Walla Walla School District wins acclaim for communications (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
BLOG: STEM focus pays off in soaring graduation rate at Toppenish High School (Claudia Rowe/The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Wasting syndrome wiping out North Kitsap sea stars (Kitsap Sun)
Acid seas threaten creatures that supply half the world’s oxygen (Crosscut)
Point No Point Lighthouse restoration nearing completion (Kitsap Sun)
Doctors to be educated on nitrates in Lower Valley water (Yakima Herald-Republic/Tri-City Herald)
Will Coast Guard trump states’ oil regulations? (AP/The Columbian)
Washington state lawmakers decry Victoria’s raw sewage dumping (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
Tribe fears hatchery work will lose funding (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Inslee directive encourages oil study (The Daily World)
Landowners group to hold Reynolds cleanup meeting Monday (The Daily News)
Salmon munching sea lions at Bonneville Dam shifting to different species, new problems (Oregonian)
EDITORIAL: Science should guide next steps as fish runs continue to recover (The Spokesman-Review)
EDITORIAL: Secrecy of rail cargo should not be tolerated (The Spokesman-Review)
EDITORIAL: Stop dumping your &#*! in our shared waters, Victoria (The News Tribune)
FISH CONSUMPTION
Wash. unions worried about fish consumption issue (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
GUN RIGHTS
Two divergent gun groups plan downtown Vancouver rallies on Tuesday (Oregonian)
EDITORIAL: Wringing hands not answer for gun violence (The Spokesman-Review)
HANFORD
Washington Closure Hanford gets $31.2M for fast work (Tri-City Herald)
Future of Hanford site may include uses for public (Yakima Herald-Republic)
HEALTH CARE
Washington health insurance rates to go up in 2015 (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Health crises take toll on credit scores (The Olympian)
OPINION: Protecting mentally ill from involuntary commitment (Mike De Felice, an attorney at the King County Department of Public Defense, supervises the public-defense team at the involuntary commitment court at Harborview Medical Center/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Better handling of mental illness could reduce mass killings (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
HIGHER EDUCATION
UW’s Korea Studies Program renamed to honor Paull Shin (The Everett Herald)
Central adjusts to reality of budget constraints (Daily Record)
Washington budget shortfall could hit higher education hard (Tri-City Herald)
New pilot program at Columbia Basin College, other state colleges focuses on competency (Tri-City Herald)
High cost of college: the truth behind the myths (The Seattle Times)
Scholarship named for SPU hero who stopped shooter (AP/The Seattle Times)
BLOG: College aerospace programs to add slots for 1,000 students (Katherine Long/The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: Student loan bill a case of misplaced compassion (Elizabeth Hovde/Oregonian)
IMMIGRATION
BLOG: Rep. DelBene: Obama should use power to avert more deportations (Kyung M. Song/The Seattle Times)
LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS
Bellingham waterfront cleanup, new walkway still waiting for Lummi Nation approval (The Bellingham Herald)
OPINION: Program offers new possibilities for conservation (Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and John Larson, National Association of Conservation Districts/The Spokesman-Review)
LEGISLATURE
Recreation funding advocates lay out list of priority projects for Legislature in 2015 (The Olympian)
BLOG: Influencing lawmakers with free food and booze (Thanh Tan/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Reform rules on wining and dining of lawmakers by lobbyists (The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Snohomish-area residents concerned about annexation (The Everertt Herald)
Olympia seeks LGBT-friendly code revisions after low score on Municipal Equality Index (The Olympian)
EDITORIAL: Reset King County Metro’s fiscal operations, free from political theater (The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: A true challenge: Act as a region (Wenatchee World)
MARIJUANA
State’s ads urge parents to discuss marijuana law with kids (The Everett Herald)
Pot businesses in Fife draw panel’s OK (The News Tribune)
BLOG: Growers will have retail marijuana available for sale in early July (Jake Ellison/Seattle P-I)
MEDIA
Last daily anchor broadcast for Queen of KING (The Seattle Times)
MILITARY
Iraq War veterans from JBLM look for peace as Mosul falls (The News Tribune)
States worry about Coast Guard’s new power push (AP/The Seattle Times)
OSO LANDSLIDE
Firefighters raising money to help Oso chief shoulder his workload (The Everett Herald)
Grocery store customers add $81,000 to Oso relief funds (The Everett Herald)
BLOG: $9,000 grant to help Arlington schools with mudslide costs (Jack Broom/The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
BLOG: Sunday Spin2: Tread lightly on tragedy during campaigns (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
NATIONAL
COLUMN: More Americans barricading themselves into ideological silos (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Former county commissioner Mike Murphy dead at 72 (The Vidette)
TRANSPORTATION
Meetings to update progress on rebuilding Highway 530 (The Everett Herald)
Construction of third Olympic-class ferry authorized (Kitsap Sun)
No structural damage as truck with excavator strikes I-5 overpass (The Everett Herald)
Rock blasting starts at 8 p.m. next Monday (Daily Record)
ATV riders seek clarity over state’s new road access law (Yakima Herald-Republic)
New 520 bus station opening just east of floating bridge (The Seattle Times)
Newest Washington ferry Tokitae not running yet (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
Traffic Q&A: SR 16 striping work could be finished in July (The News Tribune)
Work to close lanes of SR 509, I-5 ramps in DuPont this week (The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Thumbs up to an independent audit of TRAC (Tri-City Herald)
EDITORIAL: C-Tran deal with Tri-Met needs smarter care in closing than when it was written (The Columbian)
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