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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

Sept. 4, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Mabton dairy allowed more cows (Yakima Herald-Republic) BUDGET & TAXES Idaho faces new shortfall (Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Opting to keep state parks open is the right move (Olympian) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Number of Americans getting food stamps rises (AP/ Spokesman-Review) Boeing deliveries drop 22 percent (AP/Everett Herald) Will Russell stay or go? Here's the latest anonymous chatter (The News Tribune) U.S. unemployment hits 9.7% in August (Puget Sound Business Journal) U.S. worker productivity at six-year high (Puget Sound Business Journal) Boeing deliveries, orders down in August (Puget Sound Business Journal) U.S., Boeing win predicted in WTO case (Seattle Times) Ruling on Airbus-Boeing dispute given to US, EU (Olympian) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Court upholds thousands of verdicts (Spokesman-Review) KRKO radio towers toppled; eco-terrorism feared (Everett Herald) Seattle death penalty decision postponed (AP/Bellingham Herald) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Obama speech to students draws conservative ire (AP/Oregonian) Private-school enrollment falls, requests for aid are up (AP/Seattle Times) ENERGY & UTILITIES Power panel backs energy-saving ideas (AP/Seattle TImes) EDITORIAL: Preserve power of the people (Spokesman-Review) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Rep. Hastings tours Agrium plant (Tri-City Herald) Oregon tried to deter wolves for months (Oregonian) State Reopens Beach to Shellfishing (Kitsap Sun) Chehalis developer faces federal charges for filling wetlands (Longview Daily News) HANFORD Some Hanford compensation overpaid (Tri-City Herald) HEALTH CARE Back-and-Forth With Baird (The Chronicle) Baird takes on final town hall in Centralia (The Columbian) 2,000-plus sick at WSU (Spokesman-Review) In twist, illness proves more fatal in older youths (Spokesman-Review) Washington, Oregon to receive federal dollars for expansion of health-care coverage (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Some 2,000 sick with swine flu at WSU (AP/Everett Herald) OPINION: Labor unions historically blazed the path for health care in U.S. (Michael Honey, UW Tacoma/The News Tribune) OPINION: Let's Pull Together, Not Apart, for Better Health Care (Lena Swanson/Kitsap Sun) COLUMN: The health-care debate: How do you like "socialized" firefighting? (Nicholas D. Kristof/Seattle Times) COLUNM: Media coverage of health-care debate distorts the voice of the majority (EJ Dionne/Seattle Times) HIGHER EDUCATION Inventor sues 3 Northwest universities over patent (AP/Everett Herald) UW President Mark Emmert gets new perks, no pay raise (Seattle Times) IMMIGRATION Two men with county links charged with immigration fraud (Everett Herald) LABOR Hospital owner’s dispute with union to go before judge (Spokesman-Review) Judge orders striking Kent teachers back to work (AP/Everett Herald) Kent teachers delay decision on whether to stay on strike (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Wrong time and place for a school strike (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Kent teachers' strike is illegal; teachers must return to work (Seattle Times) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Kennewick, Richland click for revenue funds (Tri-City Herald) Housing Authority ‘in Intensive Care,’ but Board Sees Positive Prognosis (Kitsap Sun) Port of Bremerton Names Sustainable Building Advisor (Kitsap Sun) Fate of Capital Lake in hands of state (Olympian) County says sheriff violated statutes - South Sound (Olympian) MILITARY EDITORIAL: Army shows it knows how to get things done (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Oregon officials tracking tax campaign (AP/Longview Daily News) Names on R-71 petitions stay hidden as judge studies case (Seattle Times) Group sues in Thurston Co. to keep R-71 off ballot (Seattle P-I) STATE Opponents Flock to Meeting (The Chronicle) A popular Oregon governor hopes for an encore (Crosscut.com) BLOG: Larsen press secretary struck by bus, seriously hurt (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) SUPREME COURT State high court clarifies property seizures in drug cases (Everett Herald) NATIONAL The fate of Obama's presidency (Crosscut.com) Government to hire 270,000 by 2012 (Puget Sound Business Journal)
	SALMON Salmon projects ahead for county (The Daily World) SEX OFFENDERS EDITORIAL: The man next door (Oregonian) TRANSPORTATION Flaws found in paving at Paine Field (Everett Herald) OPINION: State is making progress on transportation issues (Rep. Judy Clibborn/Bellingham Herald) TRIBES Tulalip.com? Tribes aim to enter telecom biz (Puget Sound Business Journal)

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