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BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
Two unanimous votes launch Seattle-Tacoma Seaport Alliance (Puget Sound Business Journal)
YWCA: Three Girls Media wins business of achievement award (The Olympian)
State fines logging company for Winlock teen’s death (The Daily News)
OPINION: Communities, businesses need the other to thrive (Richard Davis, Washington Research Council/The Everett Herald)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Extended tax filers’ deadline is today (The Everett Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
State censures Granger judge for DUI (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Yakima store employees get prison for food stamp fraud (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Tougher police tactics stinging sex buyers (The Seattle Times)
Vancouver boy found safe, Amber Alert canceled (The Columbian)
DAMS
OPINION: Northwest must preserve salmon and hydro dams (Terry Flores, Northwest River Partners/Oregonian)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
State tosses out test results for entire Seattle elementary school (The Seattle Times)
Renton high school student sues over ‘F’ (Seattle P-I)
Commission: Charters need more than passion (AP/Kitsap Sun)
Edmonds school program aims to decrease bullying, increase learning (The Everett Herald)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
Million in Washington to duck and cover in drill (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
With program problems in California and elsewhere, can a low-carbon fuels standard work in Washington? (Washington State Wire)
EDITORIAL: New oil rail rules must ensure accountability (The Spokesman-Review)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
Conservation nonprofit forming alliances with landowners to preserve habitats (The Daily News)
OPINION: Film, Oct. 15 at Historic Everett Theatre, depicts fight to save wild steelhead (Jake Crawford, Native Fish Society/The Everett Herald)
GAY RIGHTS
Lawyer: 9th Circuit panel biased in same-sex marriage decision (The Spokesman-Review)
HANFORD
EPA fines DOE for missed K Basin sludge deadline (Tri-City Herald)
HEALTH CARE
Ebola concerns hit home: Health officials ask patients about West African travel (The Wenatchee World)
Quincy asked to loan hospital $1.5 million (The Wenatchee World)
Health-care union says members unprepared for Ebola cases (The Seattle Times)
Second worker at Dallas hospital tests positive for Ebola (The Texas Tribune/Crosscut)
Tacoma-area nurses, in survey, express worry about Ebola preparedness (The News Tribune)
BLOG: Task force: Hey Washington, you might be getting too much medical care (Karina Mazhukhina/Seattle P-I)
BLOG: Good enough to pass: Washington gets a C+ Women’s Health Report Card (Annie Zak/Puget Sound Business Journal)
OPINION: U.S. health system needs national authority to fight Ebola (Roseann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United/The Washington Post/The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Washington’s nurses can’t be left unprepared for Ebola (The News Tribune)
EDITORIAL: Ending exclusions under state’s mental-health parity law (The Seattle Times)
HIGHER EDUCATION
CBC makes budget pitch, lawmakers looking for the money (Tri-City Herald)
LEGISLATURE
Ethics panel defines how many free meals a lawmaker can eat (AP/The Seattle Times)
Washington Ethics Board adopts 12 meals-per-year cap for lawmakers (NW News Network)
Panel sets limit for Washington lawmakers’ free meals (The Spokesman-Review)
Panel votes on limiting free meals for lawmakers (The Daily News)
Citizens urge Olympia to recognize Indigenous People’s Day in 2015 (The Olympian)
BLOG: State panel limits free meals for lawmakers (The Everett Herald)
BLOG: Ethics board votes to limit free meals for legislators (Christina Salerno/TVW)
COLUMN: Freebies restricted: Lawmakers cut off at the buffet line (John Stang/Crosscut)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Mayor’s ex-press secretary seeks $1M in bias complaint (The Seattle Times)
Former Mayor’s Office press secretary files discrimination claim against city (Crosscut)
Residents, not council, would set elected salaries with Tacoma charter change (The News Tribune)
BLOG: First-ever affordable housing tax gets nod from Seattle council committee (Marc Stiles/Puget Sound Business Journal)
BLOG: Public Paychecks: Seattle’s mayor not among highest-paid city employees (Steven Goldsmith/Puget Sound Business Journal)
EDITORIAL: Action needed on risky septic systems (The Olympian)
MARIJUANA
Prosser OKs effective ban on medical marijuana (Yakima Herald-Republic)
EDITORIAL: Split vote reflects variety of views (Daily Record)
OSO LANDSLIDE
Land-use planners ready to apply lessons from mudslide (The Everett Herald)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
Poll: Class size initiative leading by nearly 3:1 (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
BLOG: New Poll: Class-size initiative has hefty lead (Joe O’Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
First-timer, veteran vie for 15th District House seat (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Uncontested, Manweller helps other GOP candidates (Yakima Herald-Republic)
14th District House candidates promise fresh approaches (Yakima Herald-Republic)
40th District candidates keep campaigns friendly (Skagit Valley Herald)
10th District GOP incumbent faces Libertarian challenger (Skagit Valley Herald)
Bellingham Human Services forum features 40th, 42nd district candidates (The Bellingham Herald)
Water rights, hemp, coal are key issues for House candidates in north Whatcom County (The Bellingham Herald)
44th District race key in control of state Senate (The Everett Herald)
32nd District rivals differ on funding schools (The Everett Herald)
Shea, Arritola fight for 4th District (The Spokesman-Review)
30th District: Car culture, urban aspirations and a big role in deciding state’s political course (Crosscut)
Tom Steyer-funded PAC spends money to help Tami Green defeat Steve O’Ban (The News Tribune)
BLOG: How a California billionaire gets his money into a Washington Senate campaign (Joe O’Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
STATE
COLUMN: Pakootas has 16-to-1 problem (Shawn Vestal/The Spokesman-Review)
SECURITY
EDITORIAL: No-fly list litigation shows need for public input on government’s appeals overhaul (Oregonian)
STATE GOVERNMENT
Governor’s father, Frank Inslee, dies: teacher, coach, counselor (The Seattle Times)
Governor’s father dies at age 88 (AP/Kitsap Sun)
State computer network goes on blink, stopping email and other service at agencies for nearly four hours (The Olympian)
BLOG: Goodbye to a father (Kitsap Sun)
TRANSPORTATION
COLUMN: Arboretum’s ramps to nowhere mark successful freeway revolt (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
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