AGRICULTURE & WATER
Wine groups put squeeze on new varieties of Web domain names (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Rare bumblebee rebounding? Sightings create hopeful buzz (The Seattle Times/The Olympian)
Water rights may be affected by new wastewater reclamation rules (Yakima Herald-Republic)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Small Talk: Small-business owners learn recession lessons (The Spokesman-Review)
Sales, prices rise in county housing market (The Chronicle)
Train derailment threatens 737 production, leads to supply chain questions (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Seattle hires attorney for defense in franchise suit over $15 wage rules (Puget Sound Business Journal)
EDITORIAL: In government, union fees coerce workers’ politics (The News Tribune)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
How to keep foster youth from becoming homeless youth (Crosscut)
EDITORIAL: Heroin trends show Thurston needs detox center (The Olympian)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
EDITORIAL: Murray’s Workforce Innovation bill: That sweet, bipartisan feeling (The Everett Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Washington prisons will no longer punish inmates for ‘self-harm’ (NW News Network)
Reardon aide to appear in court (The Everett Herald)
WSP troopers look for drunken drivers from the air (The Everett Herald)
Officer in shooting a ‘poster boy’ for good policing (The Chronicle)
Search continues for Green Hill inmate who escaped Wednesday (The Chronicle)
EDITORIAL: Judicial subcommittee should not mess with General Rule 15 (The Seattle Times)
DAMS
As dams fall, rapid changes on Elwha River (AP/Seattle P-I)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Granite Falls teacher wins innovation award from aerospace center (The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: Cooperation with feds on teacher evaluations best for students (The Spokesman-Review)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Regional hazmat unit help cities deal with toxic situations (Yakima Herald-Republic)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Lawsuits seek to stop work at mines in three states (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
The Duwamish: River of no return? (Crosscut)
New law takes aim at derelict boats (Kitsap Sun)
U.S. reverses proposal to list wolverine as threatened species (Los Angeles Times/The Olympian)
State spends $1.4 million to protect wildlife habitat (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Wildfires flare up in dry Eastern Washington (Seattle P-I)
Badger Canyon fire contained, between 500-600 acres burned (Tri-City Herald)
GUN RIGHTS
States look to gun-seizure laws as way to prevent mass killings (AP/The Seattle Times)
OPINION: Gun laws and what the Second Amendment intended (Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law/The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: Press Talk: A Utopian society: Are there guns? (Lou Brancaccio/The Columbian)
HANFORD
Most Hanford reactor buildings demolished (Tri-City Herald)
HEALTH CARE
State foots skyrocketing $27 mil bill for braces (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Ties between UW, PeaceHealth worry medical trainees, grad students (The Seattle Times)
State health exchange opens enrollment period for converted partnerships (The Daily News)
BLOG: Same-sex newlyweds eligible for health insurance (Lisa Stiffler/The Seattle Times)
BLOG: Is Washington’s mental health system working? (Jonathan Martin/The Seattle Times)
OPINION: Hobby Lobby ruling puts bosses’ values ahead of a woman’s health (Chris Charbonneau, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest/The Seattle Times)
OPINION: Policy change should focus on women, families’ needs (Jamie Tobias Neely, associate professor of journalism at Eastern Washington University/The Spokesman-Review)
COLUMN: Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center shortens wait times (Shawn Vestal/The Spokesman-Review)
EDITORIAL: Vaccine side effects? That argument’s shot down (The News Tribune)
HIGHER EDUCATION
LCC classes move into $38 million state-of-the-art facility this fall (The Daily News)
Vacancies in Spokane medical education program raise worries amid UW, WSU quarrel (The Spokesman-Review)
OPINION: WSU leadership at University Center means opportunities for students (Bob Drewel and Paul Pitre, WSU Everett/The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: Community input crucial to success of WSU academic plan (Tri-City Herald)
EDITORIAL: WWCC makes best of more budget cuts (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
EDITORIAL: CB Tech helps kids prepare for work (Columbia Basin Herald)
IMMIGRATION
Still no decision on housing immigrant children in vacant JBLM housing (The News Tribune)
Immigrants go Fourth at State Fair Park ceremony (Yakima Herald-Republic)
LEGISLATURE
Rep. Warnick to have office hours (Daily Record)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Stores, shoppers try to get a handle on Thurston County’s plastic bag ban (The Olympian)
County refunding $5 million in taxes to building owners on tribal land (The Everett Herald)
Everett residents to see new taxes, fees starting Tuesday (The Everett Herald)
BLOG: City Light CEO Jorge Carrasco apologizes for recent controversies (Jim Brunner/The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: King County pet-license plan should be put to sleep (The Seattle Times)
MARIJUANA
State shops prepare for historic marijuana sales (AP/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
State’s pot shops scramble as first day of legal sales approaches (AP/The Everett Herald)
Bumpy road ahead for pot (AP/The Everett Herald)
Questions and answers about Washington’s pot sales (AP/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Recreational marijuana in Washington: Questions and answers (Oregonian)
Washington prepares to launch recreational marijuana industry (Oregonian)
Recreational marijuana in Washington: Oregonians can buy pot but can’t take it across state lines (Oregonian)
Retail marijuana sales will begin Tuesday in Washington: Here’s what you need to know (The News Tribune)
Raymond cannabis company expands with help from Canadian medical marijuana giant (The Daily World)
Details fill final day before pot stores open in state (The Seattle Times)
Legal pot prices may be high to start (NW News Network)
Pot of Bremerton-based grower among first to be sold in state (Kitsap Sun)
County may tighten pot growing regulations (Daily Record)
What county marijuana growing rules look like right now (Daily Record)
BLOG: Everything you need to know about legal marijuana in Washington (Jake Ellison/Seattle P-I)
BLOG: With first retail pot licenses out, stores should be ready Tuesday (Evan Bush/The Seattle Times)
MEDIA
COLUMN: We lived there 21 years, but it wasn’t ‘our’ house (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
OSO LANDSLIDE
Video shows chunks of dirt tumbling from Oso landslide (The Seattle Times)
Oso debris cleanup starts again (The Everett Herald)
COLUMN: Driving Highway 530: ‘Approach it with … deep respect’ (Julie Muhlstein/The Everett Herald)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
Two gun control issues will be on Washington ballot (The Spokesman-Review)
BLOG: Eyman fails to qualify measure for fall ballot (The Everett Herald)
BLOG: Eyman tax initiative fails to make state ballot; he denounces Seattle (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
BLOG: No Eyman initiative this year (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
BLOG: Eyman misses mark on 2/3rds (Crosscut)
ELECTIONS
Online and mail-in registration deadline arrives Monday for Aug. 5 primary election (The Chronicle)
LEGISLATURE
2nd Legislative District incumbent faces two primary challengers (The News Tribune)
Republican leader is top fundraiser in Whatcom primary for state seat (The Bellingham Herald)
18th Dist. candidates spell out school funding plans (The Columbian)
BLOG: Spin Control: Candidates spar over income tax claim (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
LOCAL
EDITORIAL: Sheriff candidate doing a poor job of representing himself (The Chronicle)
STATE
Herrera Beutler charts own course (The Spokesman-Review)
BLOG: Sunday Spin: Checking out claims on a dog day afternoon (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
COLUMN: Mega-millionaire in warfare against his own class (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court not done hearing contraceptive cases (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Governor, Washington unions agree state employees need raises — but how much? (AP/Oregonian)
Gap between state workers and counterparts’ earnings one issue in Inslee pay talks (The Olympian)
TRANSPORTATION
Getting There: I-90 repaving among 43 state projects in federal funding limbo (The Spokesman-Review)
Ferries officials urged to expand vision of future (Kitsap Sun)
Bremerton’s tunnel, five years on: ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it’ (Kitsap Sun)
Everett seeking bids for Broadway bridge repair (The Everett Herald)
Edmonds to request $1 million for study on traffic problems (The Everett Herald)
Expect delays on I-5′s Stillaguamish bridge (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: Trucks, trains, ships and pipelines (Don Brunell/Columbia Basin Herald)
COLUMN: Washington state is nation’s best for cycling (Reid Wilson, Washington Post/Oregonian)
COLUMN: Paying for roads: Why we need to raise the gas tax – and then get rid of it (Emily Badger, The Washington Post/The News Tribune)
COLUMN: Washington ranked first for cycling (Reid Wilson, The Washington Post/The Everett Herald)
EDITORIAL: Sound Transit’s route: Going to Boeing and beyond (The Everett Herald)
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