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AGRICULTURE & WATER
East Wenatchee Water District proposes water rate hike (The Wenatchee World)
BORDER STATES
Threats spark heightened security for Gov. Kate Brown (The Oregonian)
New site preparing to take in displaced Springwater campers (The Oregonian)
OPINION: If extreme weather is a tourism threat, action is required (Nathan Boddie, Bend City Council/The Oregonian)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Amazon reports big jump in profit, adds nearly 24,000 employees in one quarter (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Microsoft says it’s planning to lay off 2,850 by end of fiscal year (The Seattle Times)
KapStone profits down from last year, but signs of improvements ahead (The Daily News)
Tough first quarter for Whatcom County stores (The Bellingham Herald)
Special meeting set in Waitsburg to discuss Nestlé plans (Union-Bulletin)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
‘No means no, and silence is not consent,’ judge says at former Corrections officer's sentencing (The Olympian)
Former King County Corrections Guild board members accused of stealing $150,000 (The Seattle Times)
COLUMN: I have a son with autism, and I feared calling the police (Kate Riley/The Seattle Times)
DAMS
Capitol Lake’s concrete dam under inspection (The Olympian)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Olympia middle school evacuated over gun report (The Olympian)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Read this before lighting any outdoor fires in Washington (The News Tribune)
Statewide burn ban takes effect today (AP/The Columbian)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Philadelphian nominated to lead Seattle Public Utilities (The Seattle Times)
State attorney general: Say no to oil terminal project (The Columbian)
Whatcom County might ban unrefined fossil fuel exports at Cherry Point (The Bellingham Herald)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
First fires, then floods. Now what? (The Wenatchee World)
Washington fines Volkswagen $176 million over emissions (The News Tribune)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EDITORIAL: Spokane Mayor David Condon needs to work on damaged credibility (The Spokesman-Review)
EDITORIAL: County officials’ pay raises come at bad time (Everett Herald)
MARIJUANA
Cle Elum council lifts marijuana ban (Daily Record)
Anacortes extends moratorium on medical marijuana cooperatives (Skagit Valley Herald)
MENTAL HEALTH
Violent patient doesn’t justify race-based staffing, court rules (The News Tribune)
Mental health evaluation and treatment center coming to Lewis County (The Chronicle)
MILITARY
‘Unknown irritant’ sickens service members at Fairchild (The Spokesman-Review)
OPEN GOVERNMENT
EDITORIAL: SeaTac’s misconduct shows the need for transparency and watchdogs (The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
Sound Transit picks ‘radioactive’ Tim Eyman to write statement against light-rail expansion (The Seattle Times)
ELECTIONS
EDITORIAL: Exercise your voting muscles (The Olympian)
LEGISLATURE
Separating truth from fiction in intraparty race for Tacoma-area House seat (The News Tribune)
Dye faces two challengers in 9th District state legislative race (Tri-City Herald)
Crowded race for two House seats in 1st Legislative District (Everett Herald)
School funding, tolls key issues in 1st District race (Everett Herald)
Republican 32nd District candidate says trust is main issue (Everett Herald)
Three-way race for 19th District House seat (The Daily News)
LOCAL
Former treasurer denies county’s allegations (Daily Record)
OPINION: Housing levy can help those getting priced out of Seattle (Sue Sherbrooke, CEO of the YWCA Seattle, King, Snohomish, Paul Lambros, executive director of Plymouth Housing Group, and Gordon McHenry Jr., president and SEO of Solid Ground/The Seattle Times)
STATE
Does Trump have a shot at winning Washington state, given its number of working-class white men? (The Seattle Times)
STATE SUPREME COURT
Charter-school backers spending $116,000 to try to unseat state Supreme Court justice (The News Tribune)
STATEWIDE OFFICE
A five-way race for the 4th District Congressional seat (The Wenatchee World)
Black candidate Jesse Wineberry says police racially profiled him after Times editorial’s error (The Seattle Times)
Bill Bryant: Gov. Inslee is running a 'Bainbridge to Bellevue' administration (Seattle P-I)
OPINION: Pro: We need a modern lands commissioner (Peter Jackson, former editorial page editor of the Everett Herald/Crosscut)
OPINION: Con: Timber does Washington good (Todd Myers, director of the Center for Environment at Washington Policy Center/Crosscut)
NATIONAL
3 Washington residents charged with breaching security fence at Democratic convention (The Seattle Times)
TRIBES
Tribal canoes carrying 5,000 people land at Point Defiance (The News Tribune)
$80,000 for nothing: Nisqually tribe moves elders, kids for rocket test later canceled (The News Tribune)
Tribes remember ancient Kennewick Man 20 years after discovery (Tri-City Herald)
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