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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

August 11, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Slaughterhouse on wheels aids 'locavore' movement (Seattle Times) Higher prices may offset lower apple production (Yakima Herald-Republic) BUDGET & TAXES Lawsuits hold up budget cuts (AP/Everett Herald) OPINION: Releasing prisoners would not cut costs (Karl Kreitzer/The News Tribune) OPINION: Could the California fiscal death spiral happen here? (James L. McIntire, State Treasurer/ Crosscut.com) EDITORIAL: Reversing budget cuts for higher education, courts is shortsighted (Oregon governor) (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Seattle adds 1,700 education, health jobs (Puget Sound Business Journal) Boeing to pay $2 million in whistleblower case (San Antonio Express News/Seattle P-I) $12 million in Washington clunkers led off to car graveyard (Seattle P-I) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Last WASL test results due Friday (Olympian) ENERGY & UTILITIES Puget Sound Energy to host light bulb exchange (Bellingham Herald) Energy secretary tours PNNL (Tri-City Herald) EDITORIAL: Heat is reminder of need to conserve (Olympian) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Rain aids firefighters' efforts in park (Peninsula Daily News) Fishing with two poles allowed beginning Saturday (Spokesman-Review) New strategy to save forests: Logging (The Chronicle) Weyerhaeuser puts more forest land up for sale (The Chronicle) That $5 isn’t for your car tabs (Everett Herald) BLOG: Stop aerial wolf hunt: 105 congressmen sign bill (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I) HEALTH CARE Stunned by critics, Obama adjusts health-care message (New York Times/Seattle Times) No 'death panel' in health care bill (AP/Oregonian) Health Care Must Pay for Itself, Congressman Says (Kitsap Sun) Mid-Columbia health care reform supporters urged to contact lawmakers (Tri-City Herald) BLOG: Cantwell: Favors public option (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I) BLOG: Poll: People fear gov. more than health insurance companies (Seattle P-I) BLOG: "Tea party" group to rally against health-care plan (Pat Muir/Yakima Herald-Republic) EDITORIAL: Health care’s real issues obscured by argument (Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Shouting won’t get us far (Everett Herald) HIGHER EDUCATION Eastern silences Eagles marching band (Spokesman-Review) HOUSING Mortgage fixes starting strong but must pick up, HUD secretary says (Seattle P-I) LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS Why Seattle won't grow as fast as planners say (Crosscut.com) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Port of Manchester Gets Pushback on Proposed Taxing District (Kitsap Sun) Money woes jeopardize Jefferson County parks, recreation (Peninsula Daily News)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Court battle looms over identity of donors to R-71 (Seattle Times) Organizers of referendum fight to keep signers' names secret (AP/Longview Daily News) BLOG: Next anti-gay rights referendum signature report Tuesday (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) BLOG: New day, new numbers and, for now, things looking better for Referendum 71 (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) LOCAL Hutchison says GOP official urged run for Senate (Seattle Times) BLOG: Documents: GOP approached Hutchison to run for mayor (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) BLOG: Nickels hits back at opponents' 'distortions,' 'half truths' (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) STATE WA Rep. Baird defends Antarctica trip (AP/Seattle Times) Two Northwest congressmen say expensive trips were job-related (Oregonian) COLUMN: Reps. Baird and Smith take different approaches to town hall meetings (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Democracy can be messy, raucous – and civil (The News Tribune) NATIONAL BLOG: Obama's second 100 days' report card. Not good. (Ted Van Dyk/ Crosscut.com) COLUMN: We Heard Obama's Message — and Don't Want It (Star Parker/Kitsap Sun)
	SALMON NOAA gets more time to prepare salmon plan (AP/ Seattle Times) TRADE EDITORIAL: Obama shows signs of warming up to trade, needs to do more (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Expect summit's failure to cost us dearly (Longview Daily News) TRANSPORTATION Gov't watchdog questions airport stimulus projects (AP/Bellingham Herald) WATER Governor asked to intervene in exempt well moratorium (Daily Record)

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