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• Growers donate 23 tons of apples (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Rustlers suspected of stealing 1,240 cattle in Oregon (Oregonian/Longview Daily News)

• BLOG: Port of Seattle reduces tax bite on property owners (Seattle P-I)

• Jobless rates hit double digits in 14 states (Puget Sound Business Journal)

• Ex-supervisor sues Postal Service over firing (Spokesman-Review)
• Bellevue leader suggests shaming bikini coffee stand visitors (KOMO TV)
• 'Naughty' espresso stand defying Bellevue city order (KIRO TV)
• OPINION: Getting tough on domestic violence (Rep. Mike Hope/Everett Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Brutality at Home (Columbian)

• Oregon teachers may get OK to wear religious clothing in class (Oregonian)
• Federal grant will help Kelso schools improve teaching (Longview Daily News)
• Panel backs $65M school bond - South Sound (Olympian)
• Spokane elementary schools switch to number grades (Spokesman-Review)
• BLOG: Hear Randy Dorn’s policy speech on math and science graduation requirements here (Niki Reading/ TVW)
• EDITORIAL: On to Round Two (Seattle Times)
• EDITORIAL: Delaying math, science goals unfair to students (Tri-City Herald)

• Firefighters feel heat in Sunnyside meeting on Dry Creek blaze (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Flood fears dampen business, home sales (Seattle Times)
• Boil-water advisory issued for Vader, Enchanted Valley (Longview Daily News)

• Troublesome Timber (The Daily World)
• OPINION: Restoring saltwater, and nature, to the Nisqually River estuary (Daniel Jack Chasan/ Crosscut.com)
• COLUMN: It's time to promote development that conserves land and energy (Neal Peirce/ Seattle Times)
• EDITORIAL: Climate change efforts don’t need idea police (The News Tribune)

• Unemployed Arlington man wins $6.5 million Lotto jackpot (KOMO TV)

• Big demand, grim outlook for state Basic Health Plan (Seattle Times)
• The threat of MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium commonly picked up in gyms and schools, grows dramatically (Oregonian)
• ‘Fair’ health care tax remains thorny issue (Spokesman-Review)
• OPINION: Setting the record straight on mammograms (Dr. Valerie Hunter/Oregonian)
• OPINION: Mammogram guidelines: conservatives to the rescue (Kevin Huffman, Teach for America/Oregonian)
• EDITORIAL: Let science trump politics (Everett Herald)

• Oregon OKs $20 million settlement in college savings plan suit (Oregonian)
• Is a college degree worth what it costs? (Oregonian)
• EDITORIAL: Paving the path to college for low-income kids (The News Tribune)

• Point Ruston: It took a big village, Sims says (The News Tribune)
• OPINION: Tax credit benefits everyone (Bill Riley, Washington Realtors/The News Tribune)

• EDITORIAL: Good luck to Obama on immigration reform; he's going to need it (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• City will mull tax increase (Columbian)
• Snohomish County budget passes, with a caveat (Everett Herald)
• Monroe struggles to fix $131,000 budget gap (Everett Herald)
• No easy cuts in initial look at county budget (Kitsap Sun)
• BLOG: Mallahan campaign: McGinn tunnel flip-flop 'genius' (Seattle P-I)

• OPINION: Touring the dial of public radio's future (Feliks Banel/ Crosscut.com)

• Guard's 144th bound for Iraq (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• USS Stennis returns from exercise with strike group (Kitsap Sun)

• Cities get money to improve open access to records (Wenatchee World)

• EDITORIAL: More transparency would shine light on power of special-interest contributions (Longview Daily News)

• Initiative activist Bill Sizemore wants second chance for Oregon governor (Oregonian)

• SC legislators begin Sanford impeachment hearings (AP/Seattle Times)
• COLUMN: Democrats' choice: suicide or death (Rich Lowry/Oregonian)
• COLUMN: What's wrong with U.S.? Look at D.C. (Star Parker/Kitsap Sun)

• Federal judge praises new salmon-protection plan (Seattle Times)
• Salmon plan good so far, judge says (AP/The News Tribune)
• Working plan looks closer for Northwest salmon protection (Oregonian)
• EDITORIAL: Judge should give OK to government’s salmon plan (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• State, growers at odds over water rights (Tri-City Herald)