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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

August 3, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Sound-friendly farming (Olympian) Heat tests area crops (AP/Spokesman-Review) Researchers test automated crop production in Royal City (Tri-City Herald) BUDGET & TAXES Washington state can learn from California's budget disaster (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Sunday) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY 2009 property assessments reflect falling market values (Seattle P-I) Whatcom County governments forced to return some stimulus money (Bellingham Herald) New rules governing credit terms go into effect this month (Kitsap Sun) New liquor prices upset Washington consumers (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Oregon officials' spin on stimulus jobs is deceptive and outrageous (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Friday) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Russell fights conviction, term (Spokesman-Review) Stribling case shows how Web crimes have blurred law enforcement borders (Longview Daily News - Sunday) Feds seek explosives stolen from port facility (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Fight crime by turning out for National Night Out (Yakima Herald-Republic) EDITORIAL: County ahead of the curve with new veterans court (Olympian) DAMS Bill opens possibility of Lower Snake River dam removal (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY EDITORIAL: Time for Oregon schools to stretch (Oregonian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Democrats, teachers' union hold state back (The Columbian - Saturday) ENERGY & UTILITIES Kittitas solar plant could be super expensive (Seattle P-I) Wildlife hinders wind farm strategy (The Columbian - Sunday) Public utilities object to proposed industrial rate (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) OPINION: A crude reality (Kathleen Parker/Oregonian - Sunday) COLUMN: Energy bill creates more problems than it solves (Kathleen Parker/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Oregon's energy tax credit: A mighty wind over modest changes (Oregonian - Sunday) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES New strategy to save forests: logging (Seattle Times) Cougars sighted near Quilcene (Peninsula Daily News) One Olympic National Park fire grows while others burn selves out (Peninsula Daily News) GUN RIGHTS EDITORIAL: Hunters need to focus on safety (Olympian - Friday) HANFORD Perma-Fix allowed to treat more Hanford waste (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) HEALTH CARE Kreidler offers his take on debate over health-care reform (Seattle P-I) Analysis: Some health care numbers don't tally (AP/Seattle P-I) Just how good a health plan does Congress have? (Oregonian) Local leaders weigh in on health-care reform (Kitsap Sun - Sunday) Health care reform plan draws local protesters (Yakima Herald-Republic - Sunday) Why health care worries businesses (Everett Herald) Sorting out the health care proposals (The News Tribune) University of Washington to expand medical center (Puget Sound Business Journal) OPINION: The solution for GM and Chrysler might be good medicine for U.S. health care system (Scott Barnhart, M.D., MPH/Seattle Times - Sunday) OPINION: Federal health care is asking for trouble (Denis Gorner/Kitsap Sun - Sunday) COLUMN: Patient-centered health reform (Jill Hodges/Seattle P-I) COLUMN: Thirteen members of Congress hold health care hostage (David Sirota/Seattle Times) COLUMN: Competition of ideas moves health reform in right direction (David S. Broder/Seattle Times) COLUMN: Myths surround health care debate (John Laird/The Columbian) EDITORIAL: A health care alternative that may win out in the end (Longview Daily News) EDITORIAL: Here come the demagogues (Everett Herald - Sunday) EDITORIAL: It's time to take swine flu threat seriously (Olympian - Sunday) HIGHER EDUCATION WSU loses grant funding migrant worker education (AP/Spokesman-Review) WWU ranked 8th among 'green power' schools (Bellingham Herald - Sunday) OPINION: Tuition spikes prove it's time to reexamine higher ed funding (Ann Daley, Higher Education Coordinating Board/Bellingham Herald) EDITORIAL: Lost money is teachable moment for Evergreen (Olympian - Friday) HOUSING Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound (AP/Seattle P-I) LABOR Labor leaders upset with state Democrats (Seattle Times) Unions more cautious about which candidates get help (AP/Everett Herald) Labor groups blast top party (Olympian - Sunday) LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS Clallam zoning challenged, again (Peninsula Daily News) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Longview City Council to take second look at merger vote (Longview Daily News) Tacoma may not fill many city jobs (The News Tribune) OPINION: Public safety tax request a dodge (John Roskelley/Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Woodland should seek professional help soon (Longview Daily News - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Yakima council must adopt ethics code sooner, not later (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) MEDIA AP newsman Rory Marshall dead at 54 (AP/Bellingham Herald) EDITORIAL: Endorsements are a vibrant contribution to community deliberation at election time (Seattle Times - Friday) MILITARY Fort Lewis soldier to be tried in death at barracks (Olympian - Saturday)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Most anti-gay initiative signatures valid, so far (Seattle P-I) Referendum 71 backers gather 138,000 signatures (Seattle Times) Eyman questions education group’s look into initiative (The News Tribune) Oregon conservatives launch nonprofits to push initiatives (Oregonian - Saturday) OPINION: Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1033 still looks like piling on (Richard Davis/Puget Sound Business Journal - Friday) ELECTIONS EDITORIAL: Election time is already here, so be sure to vote (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) LOCAL Interviewing candidates in Seattle mayor's race (Seattle Times) Love-In: The mayor and his top campaign donor (Seattle Weekly) EDITORIAL: The Times recommends: Nickels, Mallahan top so-so field in Seattle mayor's race (Seattle Times) STATE Attorney General McKenna knows when to stay away (Everett Herald - Sunday) Larsen to talk with Bellingham veterans (Bellingham Herald - Sunday) BLOG: Reichert: A tough target (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I - Friday) NATIONAL American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran (Seattle P-I) Ball in Senate's court on 'cash for clunker' sales (AP/Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Clunkers program suffers from popularity (Olympian) EDITORIAL: ‘Clunker’ program may need a tune-up (Spokesman-Review)
	SALMON King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty (AP/Seattle P-I - Sunday) STATE GOVERNMENT BLOG: PSE, state troopers agree to contracts with state (Brad Shannon/Olympian - Friday) TRANSPORTATION Suit filed to stop rail on I-90 floating bridge (AP/Bellingham Herald) Last gasp before the first train: Transit opponents sue over light rail to eastside (Seattle Weekly) TRIBES More treasures of Tse-whit-zen uncovered on Port Angeles waterfront (Peninsula Daily News) Ancestral skeletons dig up emotions (Peninsula Daily News) WATER Lawmakers address exempt well moratorium (Columbia Basin Herald - Friday)

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