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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

August 25, 2009

	BUDGET & TAXES Seattle No. 2 in U.S. for traveler taxes (Puget Sound Business Journal) New weed tax approved (Wenatchee World) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Gov't extends deadline for clunkers paperwork (AP/Bellingham Herald) 25-year veteran of Port of Port Angeles named executive director (Peninsula Daily News) OPINION: High taxes, red tape remove shine from Golden State (Don Brunell/The Columbian) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Alleged killers want names of jail nurses (Seattle P-I) Bremerton hires attorneys to prosecute misdemeanors (Kitsap Sun) OPINION: Shine light on racism that festers in shadows (Spokesman-Review) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Audit: Seattle schools mum on missing property (Seattle P-I) Port Angeles School Board OKs $39.5 million budget (Peninsula Daily News) EDITORIAL: Merit pay for teachers would end fight on pay (Seattle Times) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES County to update hazard mitigation plan (The Chronicle) ENERGY & UTILITIES Spotted owls block Skamania wind farm expansion (The Daily World) Moses Lake man turns to solar power (Columbia Basin Herald) Grant PUD to raise power rates (Wenatchee World) Grays Harbor PUD may join nuclear plant project (AP/The News Tribune) OPINION: Nuclear Energy: It's the only way to go green (Sen. Jerome Delvin/Seattle P-I) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Add a ‘green’ coat to your car (Olympian) Portland federal building due for big green makeover with federal stimulus dollars (Oregonian) ‘Just like rust,’ invasive mussels ready to invade Northwest (Bellingham Herald) Port Angeles officials mull response to NOAA pick (Peninsula Daily News) Firefighters make progress against two Wash. wildfires (Spokesman-Review) Hood Canal risk of fish kill rising (Seattle Times) Hood Canal oxygen levels falling again as temperatures rise (AP/Everett Herald) Crews mop up Dry Creek Fire (Tri-City Herald) EDITORIAL: Stubborn steelhead (The Columbian) FAMILY ISSUES Demand dwarfs supplies giveaway (Spokesman-Review) HANFORD Contractor starts work at Hanford (Tri-City Herald) HEALTH CARE Medical Center tops Consumer Reports list (Wenatchee World) Six human cases of mosquito-borne diseases suspected (Yakima Herald-Republic) Swine flu could infect half of U.S. (Washington Post/Spokesman-Review) Swine flu to hit 50 percent of us? (Seattle Times) BLOG: Now Norm Dicks gets on the health-care townhall bandwagon (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune) BLOG: U.S. Rep. Adam Smith health care town hall tonight in Lakewood (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Everyone has role to play in limiting flu's spread (Yakima Herald-Republic) EDITORIAL: Fewer decibels, more thought on health care (Tri-City Herald) HIGHER EDUCATION Third woman assaulted on WSU campus (Spokesman-Review) University of Washington leads on $2.6M grant to increase math, engineering degrees for minority students (Puget Sound Business Journal) DREAM Act would aid migrant students (Tri-City Herald) WSUV hikes student aid (The Columbian) Washington SAT scores down a bit from last year (AP/The News Tribune) HOUSING Attorneys general form mortgage fraud task force (AP/Everett Herald) LEGISLATURE Plum appointments rile Republican lawmakers (Oregonian) BLOG: Looks as if Sen. Jarrett and Rep. Hunter will remain so (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Castle Rock balances city budget with cuts and federal money (Longview Daily News) County official fired after being accused of lewd act (Everett Herald) Three Jefferson County chambers will try living together before merging (Peninsula Daily News) Public to have chance to meet Sequim city manager hopefuls (Peninsula Daily News) Report: Pierce County assessor retaliated against employee (The News Tribune) BLOG: Report: Pierce County assessor retaliated against employee (David Wickert/The News Tribune) BLOG: Deputy assessor: Charges against Washam are baseless (David Wickert/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Feds saved city $3 million in loan interest (Olympian) EDITORIAL: Many ways to have your voice heard (Longview Daily News) MILITARY Fort Lewis to test alcohol treatment (Olympian) EDITORIAL: Passing the buck on a broken face (The News Tribune)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES BLOG: Update on R71: 9,000 more signatures checked and counting (Niki Sullivan/ TVW) ELECTIONS OPINION: Celebrating 89 years of stronger democracy (Catherine Ahl, President, League of Women Voters of Kitsap/Kitsap Sun) EDITORIAL: Parties should give up and let Washington voters have their top-two primary (Seattle Times) LOCAL Former lawmaker joins assessor race (Seattle Times) COLUMN: Greg, we hardly knew ye (David Brewster/ Crosscut.com) STATE Rep. Norm Dicks changes his mind on health care town halls (Kitsap Sun) NATIONAL GOP fundraising 'survey' outrages some recipients (The Columbian)
	STATE GOVERNMENT Wash. bans Capitol holiday displays, tree to stay (AP/Seattle P-I) It'll be a 'holiday' tree only inside the state Capitol this coming winter (Seattle Times) BLOG: No Nativity scene or Festivus pole at Capitol this year (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) TRANSPORTATION For sale by owner: Monroe airport (Everett Herald) Highway 20 closure continues (Wenatchee World) Group to hold meeting on Sound Transit’s rail plan for Dome District (The News Tribune) BLOG: State wants $435 mil in stimulus funds for rail service (Scott Gutierrez/Seattle P-I) WAR AGAINST TERROR EDITORIAL: Incineration of chemical weapons makes nation safer (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) WATER Former Ecology watermaster starts consulting business (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

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