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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

August 18, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Family of dairy farmers closes its business (Spokesman-Review) Obscure rule on manure stirs controversy (Yakima Herald-Republic) BUDGET & TAXES Oregon eyes taverns' and bars' video lottery profits (Oregonian) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Everett Port seeks $43 million to grow (Everett Herald) Oregon's job figures show end of recession may be in sight (Oregonian) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Lewis County deputy critically injured after hitting elk (The Chronicle) Lewis County deputy injured in collision with elk (AP/Olympian) Man killed by police at hospital known to local cops (The Daily World) Woman sues state over sexual assault at detention center (Seattle Times) Size of seized cache prompts Yakima police to ask agents to consider domestic terrorism case (Yakima Herald-Republic) Man charged with sales tax fraud (Everett Herald) Doctor says Duncan can stand trial (Press-Enterprise/Spokesman-Review) BLOG: Drywaller accused of not paying $850,000 in state sales tax (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) COLUMN: Swelling prison populations hamper state governments (Neal Peirce/Seattle Times) COLUMN: Texting is more dangerous on highways than driving drunk (Leonard Pitts/Olympian) DAMS OPINION: Breaching Snake River dams will return farmland to desert (Don Brunell/The Columbian) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Sequim schools restore some positions (Peninsula Daily News) Will lack of charter schools cost state federal grant funds? (AP/Olympian) Kitsap Schools Note Increase in Ranks of Homeless Students (Kitsap Sun) BLOG: Watch the WASL press conference here (Niki Sullivan/TVW) BLOG: Education advocates say state should apply for Race to the Top (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: List of 'failing' schools grows due to unrealistic education standards (Longview Daily News) EDITORIAL: A race our state can’t sit out (Everett Herald) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES EDITORIAL: Basinwide flood solutions need to be pushed (The Chronicle) ENERGY & UTILITIES Agencies object to Avista's proposed rate hikes (Spokesman-Review) Avista rate increase challenged (Puget Sound Business Journal) Richland hears about 'smart grid' benefits (Tri-City Herald) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Hurricane Ridge Road closed indefinitely because of slide (Peninsula Daily News) GAMBLING Lottery winner stayed mum about his millions (Herald-Republic/Spokesman-Review) HANFORD Feds inspecting Hanford nuclear power plant (Spokesman-Review) HEALTH CARE Apparent shift riles proponents of public-health plan (The Washington Post/Seattle Times) Are health co-ops the cure? (The Washington Post/Seattle Times) Health care reform: Questions and answers (Longview Daily News) Baird to face public on health care (The Columbian) Baird - The whole world may be watching (The Columbian) Baird receives death threats (The Columbian) Health co-ops have checkered history (AP/Oregonian) MoveOn.org moves in to counter GOP protests in Port Townsend (Peninsula Daily News) BLOG: MoveOn folks rally at TNT (John Henrikson/The News Tribune) BLOG: Sen. Murray talks healthcare in Everett but not at a town hall (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) COLUMN: Obamacare: a plan to "Swissify" the nation's health-care system (Paul Krugman/Seattle Times) OPINION: Health reform without a public option isn't real health reform (Sen. Karen Keiser/Seattle P-I) OPINION: Don't need Uncle Sam prescribing my pills (Lynda Jo Staples/Daily Sun News) OPINION: Health care’s in need of reform, but government takeover is not the way (Rep. Mike Armstrong/Wenatchee World) EDITORIAL: Giving up health-care reform's public option for what, exactly? (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Public option vs. political reality (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Health care co-ops: a model that might fly (Oregonian) HIGHER EDUCATION OPINION: Parsing college rankings raises questions about criteria for this high-school senior (Yoo Jung Kim/Seattle Times) IMMIGRATION Feds: Bellingham company hired undocumented workers (AP/Everett Herald) LOCAL GOVERNMENT King County may shut down 39 neighborhood parks (Seattle Times) Tax district will collect for University District (Spokesman-Review) Kitsap County Looking at Dipping Into its Reserves Again (Kitsap Sun) Yakima ethics code proposals: limit to council, screen claims (Yakima Herald-Republic) BLOG: King County to 'mothball' 39 parks in 2010; they'll stay open (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) MEDIA Political columnist Robert Novak dies at 78 (KIRO TV) Msnbc.com grabs EveryBlock (Puget Sound Business Journal) BLOG: The "future" of news will be social, ultra local (Benny Evangelista/Seattle P-I) MILITARY Obama criticizes a Cold War approach to defense (AP/Oregonian) OPEN GOVERNMENT EDITORIAL: The phantom loophole in state records law (The News Tribune)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES BLOG: Anti-gay rights ref. signature check half finished (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) BLOG: Referendum 71 - the legal counterattack (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) ELECTIONS Ballots must be turned in today (Everett Herald) Ballot deadline for Washington primary election (AP/Everett Herald) BLOG: Wall Street Journal looks at Seattle primary (Scott Sunde/Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Submit your vote today to influence tomorrow (Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Decision time (Columbia Basin Herald) LOCAL Candidates make last-minute push for votes (KIRO TV) Primary marked by low voter turnout (Peninsula Daily News) Ballots Due Tuesday for Kitsap County Primary Election (Kitsap Sun) Castle Rock police: We didn't endorse city council candidate (Longview Daily News) EDITORIAL: Talk of raising sales tax for Valley Transit going nowhere (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
	SALMON Fishery managers predict big fall chinook run (AP/Spokesman-Review) SEX OFFENDERS Pierce County's e-mail sex offender alerts delayed (The News Tribune) STATE GOVERNMENT EDITORIAL: Visitor & Convention Bureau steps up to fill void (Olympian) TRANSPORTATION Horizon flight comes to stop off runway at Bellingham airport (Bellingham Herald) Court rejects Seattle traffic law (Seattle Times) WATER Yelm drops water rights proposal (Olympian)

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