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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

Sept. 15, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Borlaug’s amber legacy (Spokesman-Review) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Oregon job losses resume; August unemployment rate hits 12.2% (Oregonian) Some banks in state risk failure (Olympian) Centralia Venture Bank branch open after sale (The Chronicle) Boeing talks up refueling tankers ahead of new competition (Puget Sound Business Journal) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Violent crime in Oregon takes nation's biggest drop; decrease in meth production may be key (Oregonian) Violent crime down in city, up in suburbs (Seattle P-I) Protesters' lawsuit can move ahead (Olympian) Some King County cities see crime rise (Seattle Times) Ex-Justice O'Connor: Electing judges puts courts at risk (Seattle Times) Marijuana allies protest (Spokesman-Review) Woman run over by ex-con with car sues Department of Corrections (The News Tribune) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Audit faults Sunnyside schools' oversight of federal money (Yakima Herald-Republic) A dose of brutal honesty for Tacoma schools (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Charter school debate is worth revisiting (Olympian) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES Federal, state officials set flood meeting (Olympian) Gregoire promises state aid to prepare for flooding (AP/The News Tribune) ENERGY & UTILITIES California renewables push could drive up prices in Oregon (Oregonian) Avista cutting natural gas rates (Spokesman-Review) When a rate hike is the right thing (Wenatchee World) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES New study shows river runoff decreases in driest years in Oregon, Northwest (Oregonian) Toxic chemicals list faces delays (AP/Olympian) People for Puget Sound gets new leader (Olympian) 100-plus seabirds found dead on 25-mile stretch of West End beach (Peninsula Daily News) HANFORD Federal money to satisfy most Hanford deadlines (Tri-City Herald) HEALTH CARE System slights MS treatment (Spokesman-Review) Chelan hospital board fires CEO (Wenatchee World) Workers kick off flu fight (The Columbian) OPINION: Medical malpractice also needs to be reformed (Don Brunell/The Columbian) HIGHER EDUCATION Enrollment reopens for Wash. prepaid tuition (Spokesman-Review) IMMIGRATION Four will be returned to Mexico (Spokesman-Review) LABOR Longview School District, union agree to new contract (Longview Daily News) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Port of Manchester Commissioners Scuttle IDD Tax Proposal (Kitsap Sun) Edler notes NRA pressure to quit Mayors Against Illegal Guns (Yakima Herald-Republic) Sequim delays manager pact as irked council targets job recruiter for more information (Peninsula Daily News) ‘High-test’ beer targeted (Spokesman-Review) Pasco considers consolidation, bridge studies (Tri-City Herald) County calculates which ‘green’ purchasing efforts pay off (The Columbian) MILITARY Bremerton Man Will Join President for Medal of Honor Presentation (Kitsap Sun) Korean War veterans — ‘The ranks are thinning’ (The Chronicle) Whidbey naval base ceremony to honor POW-MIAs (Everett Herald)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES BLOG: State appeals decision blocking release of R-71 signers (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Names of those who sign petitions must be public (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) EDITORIAL: R-71, mark 'approved' to support the domestic-partnership bill (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Federal judge goofs in closing public access (Tri-City Herald) LOCAL McGinn's no-tunnel campaign counts on fewer cars (Seattle Times) Republican Women's Club sets forum for GOP candidates (Everett Herald) BLOG: McGinn public safety platform focuses on gun crime (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I) STATE Area tea party events support national march (Wenatchee World) BLOG: Tea Party tax protest draws about 350 (Brad Shannon/Olympian) SUPREME COURT Court passes on Boy Scout land sale deal to Federal Way (The News Tribune)
	SALMON Obama administration to release salmon plan today (AP/Longview Daily News) Salmon plan boosts protection, administration says (AP/Spokesman-Review) OPINION: Energizing the future to save our salmon (Liz Hamilton, Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association/Oregonian) STATE GOVERNMENT How Many State Natural Resource Agencies Are Needed? (Kitsap Sun) State workers aim to raise $6 million (Olympian) Woman struck by car sues Department of Corrections (Olympian) BLOG: Gregoire aides launch effort to streamline natural-resources agencies (Brad Shannon/Olympian) TOBACCO EDITORIAL: Park Board was right to rescind smoking ban (Spokesman-Review) TRADE EDITORIAL: Obama risking a trade war with China (Longview Daily News) TRANSPORTATION Metro could save millions, audit finds (Seattle P-I) TRIBES OPINION: EchoHawk offers new direction for tribal/government relations (Billy Frank, Jr./Bellingham Herald)

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