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AGRICULTURE & WATER
Businesses worry over new water pollution rules (The Daily News)
BORDER STATES
Lawmakers would have free rein over money from corporate tax measure, legislative lawyer says (The Oregonian)
Obama commutes 214 prison sentences, one Oregonian makes the list (The Oregonian)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Opposition turns out for Nestlé meeting (Union-Bulletin)
Mayor wants more time on unionizing Uber, Lyft drivers (The Seattle Times)
BLOG: Declines in aerospace manufacturing drags Seattle down to No. 50 in nation for advanced industry job growth (Emily Parkhurst/Puget Sound Business Journal)
BLOG: FAA allows Google to take on Amazon with drone delivery tests (Gina Hall/Puget Sound Business Journal)
BLOG: Union negotiations could affect Amazon's new Atlas Air cargo service (Emily Parkhurst/Puget Sound Business Journal)
EDITORIAL: $15 minimum wage has pros, cons (The Columbian)
EDITORIAL: Pacific Rim trade will create jobs in state, U.S. (The Everett Herald)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
Israel: Manager for Federal Way-based World Vision funneled millions to Hamas (The Seattle Times)
EDITORIAL: Discussing depression can help reduce teen suicides (Union-Bulletin)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Trial: Deputy opened fire on ‘a deadly-force threat’ (The Wenatchee World)
37 new Washington State Patrol troopers make small dent in shortage (NW News Network)
Claim: Jailers mocked dying young woman during her last hours (Seattle P-I)
Lawsuit against Snohomish County focuses on inmate’s death (The Everett Herald)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
Groups sue to block new Washington charter schools law (AP/The Columbian)
County partnerships reverse summer slide (The News Tribune)
Bellingham schools to do away with pay-to-play sports fees this fall (The Bellingham Herald)
Coalition files new challenge to Washington’s charter-school law (The Seattle Times)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
OPINION: National energy policy must be broad and inclusive of all sources (Don Brunnell/The Chronicle)
FISH
Fed judge orders EPA to finalize ‘fish consumption rule’ (The Everett Herald)
HANFORD
Two Hanford workers checked for vapor exposure (Tri-City Herald)
HEALTH CARE
North Idaho woman develops Zika virus (The Spokesman-Review)
HIGHER EDUCATION
Bellevue College President David Rule resigns (The Seattle Times)
IMMIGRATION
BLOG: 'Making the pie bigger:' Washington business leaders call for immigration reform (Ashley Stewart/Puget Sound Business Journal)
MARIJUANA
State pot sales reach new high after medical shops’ closures (The News Tribune)
Puyallup Tribe pursuing medical marijuana grow after signing deal with state (The News Tribune)
Walla Walla County keeps medical pot ban in place (Union-Bulletin)
MENTAL HEALTH
Pierce Court commissioner repeats ruling: Western State must accept outside oversight (The News Tribune)
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
What we learned from the initial primary results (The Everett Herald)
OPINION: Having fewer offices on ballot would increase accountability (Jason Mercier, director of the Washington Policy Center’s Center for Government Reform/Tri-City Herald)
EDITORIAL: Not in top two? Our condolences — now kindly remove campaign signs (Yakima Herald)
LEGISLATURE
Battle to be the second candidate in 15th District House race tightens (Yakima Herald)
Walsh wins 19th District primary; Purcell, Rossetti battling for second place (The Daily News)
State Rep. Terry Nealey to face Richland Democrat in legislative race (Union-Bulletin)
Legislative race to feature Tri-Cities area candidates (Union-Bulletin)
The state Senate dogfight: Expect a deluge of direct mail in contested districts (Seattle P-I)
LOCAL
Snohomish County sales tax measure continues to trail (The Seattle Times)
STATE
Herrera Beutler likely to face Moeller for Congress (The Chronicle)
Ventrella mulls limited campaign re-boot, Pierce County exec strong in state Auditor race (The News Tribune)
Tony Ventrella’s zombie campaign hurts Democrats’ already-slim chances against GOP Congressman Dave Reichert (The Seattle Times)
STATE SUPREME COURT
State's chief justice unsure she still has an opponent (The News Tribune)
STATEWIDE OFFICE
For the first time, the ‘top-two’ system advances candidates from same party for statewide office (The Spokesman-Review)
Conservative talk-show host remains tied with Democrat at top of lieutenant-governor race (The Seattle Times)
BLOG: Odd election night math (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
SECURITY
‘I’m no terrorist,’ says Spokane County Jail inmate under FBI review who’s held on $1 million bond (The Spokesman-Review)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Inmate mistakenly freed early by state convicted in deadly Bellevue crash (The Seattle Times)
Official stands by order to fix Western psychiatric hospital woes (The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
Fox Island residents to Pierce County: ‘We don’t want to be Mercer Island’ (The News Tribune)
Anacortes to look into replacing Tommy Thompson Trail trestle, causeway (Skagit Valley Herald)
WILDFIRES
Fire north of Moses Lake diminishes, evacuation lifted (The Spokesman-Review)
Range 12 fire 90 percent contained, 176,600 acres of Yakima, Benton counties scorched (Yakima Herald)
Olympic National Park fires continue to grow (Kitsap Sun)
Fire that threatened Hanford 60 percent contained (Tri-City Herald)
More than 2 dozen large wildfires burn in Western states (AP/The Columbian)
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