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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

Sept. 18, 2009

	ABORTION Pasco commission says no to Planned Parenthood, yes to corn maze (Tri-City Herald) BUDGET & TAXES Lawmakers say revenue forecast unlikely to force special session (Longview Daily News) Oregon business group on sidelines of tax fight for now (Oregonian) Small-government backers rally (Spokesman-Review) Wash. expected to lose about $238M in tax revenue (AP/Spokesman-Review) Apparent confusion over current tax rate (The Daily World) Lawmakers may have to cut up to $1 billion more from state budget (News Tribune) BLOG: The State Budget: “Extremely Tough” (Mike Bay/ TVW) EDITORIAL: WTO ruling a moral victory for Boeing (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Long-term fixes are needed (Everett Herald) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Gregoire predicts a slow rebound (Spokesman-Review) Boeing laying off another 250 workers (Seattle P-I) The bully of Puget Sound (Crosscut.com) 747-8 to fly before Dreamliner (The News Tribune) COLUMN: Seattle’s version of sharing: Scraps for Tacoma, good stuff for us (Peter Callaghan/ The News Tribune) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Institutionalized killer escapes during Spokane trip (AP/Longview Daily News) Patient with violent past escapes at fair (Spokesman-Review) Court throws out malpractice law (AP/Spokesman-Review) Supreme Court rules non-Indians can be detained (Yakima Herald-Republic) County's drug courts earn a budget reprieve (Everett Herald) Wash. court throws out medical malpractice law (AP/Seattle Times) DAMS EDITORIAL: Despite Doc's anxiety, Snake River dams likely to stay (Yakima Herald-Republic) EDITORIAL: Energy or salmon? (Columbia Basin Herald) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Districts Nervously Ponder Flu's Potential Toll on Teachers (Kitsap Sun) Woodland discovers formula for WASL success (Longview Daily News) State auditors find fault with local school district (Daily Sun News) EDITORIAL: Seattle Public Schools' 'D' students (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Teachers' defiance of order sent wrong message (Olympian) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES Green River needs higher levees — quickly (Seattle Times) ENERGY & UTILITIES Cowlitz PUD hearing to address rate increase (Longview Daily News) State lands commissioner wants to branch out to wind, biomass energy (The Columbian) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Bainbridge Wins a Battle on Shoreline Pollution Front (Kitsap Sun) Skokomish watershed work helps fish (Olympian) HEALTH CARE Richland health care forum heats up (Tri-City Herald) Governor teaches Pasco kids about flu shots (Tri-City Herald) Health insurance costs in state a ‘strain' (The Columbian) Speaker: Health care debate should focus on patient care (Yakima Herald-Republic) Doctor given probation for overbilling insurance plans (Yakima Herald-Republic) BLOG: David Brooks in Yakima: 'I'm in favor of death panels' (Harris Meyer/ Crosscut.com) COLUMN: Health care for the immigrants (Tracy Warner/ Wenatchee World) COLUMN: Tracking the implications of federal health-care reform for Washington (Lance Dickie/Seattle Times) HIGHER EDUCATION New college forestry tech program to help jobless (The Chronicle) HOUSING Richland Housing Authority executive director fired (Tri-City Herald) LABOR Oregon labor leader moves into No.2 spot at AFL-CIO (Oregonian) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Murray says bill would fund Clark County projects (The Columbian) Peninsula's county administrators concerned by latest projected state revenue shortfall (Peninsula Daily News) Council committee OK's B&O tax change that benefits Russell Investments (Seattle Times) MEDIA BLOG: Madison Award for TVW Founders (Mike Bay/TVW) EDITORIAL: TVW founders and Washington auditor worthy recipients of open-government awards (Seattle Times) OPEN GOVERNMENT EDITORIAL: Your Right to Know (The Columbian)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES R-71 ruling may not threaten open-government laws (Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Referendum 71 is all about equality for same-sex couples (Olympian) EDITORIAL: Shielding petitioners' names is a dangerous door to open (Longview Daily News) LOCAL Susan Hutchison, Democratish (Seattle Weekly - Thursday) SUPREME COURT EDITORIAL: Let's not rush to change judicial elections (Yakima Herald-Republic) NATIONAL The GOP's prescription for health care (Kaiser Health News/Seattle Times)
	SEX OFFENDERS BLOG: Seven SCC residents indicted on child porn charges (Stacey Mulick/ The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Worst of the worst of the worst on McNeil Island (The News Tribune) STATE GOVERNMENT Local ACORN event called off (Everett Herald) State will break Aetna contract (Olympian) BLOG: Whose bright idea was it to take mental patients to the Spokane fair? DSHS wants to know (Joe Turner/ The News Tribune) TTRANSPORTATION Beset by money woes, I-5 bridge project looks at cuts (Oregonian) I-5 Columbia River bridge project faltering (AP/Longview Daily News) Upper Kittitas County looks at a new way to handle snow (The Daily Record) WATER Kittitas County-DOE can't come to an agreement on wells (The Daily Record)

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