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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

Sept. 21, 2009

	TOP STORY - ESCAPED KILLER RE-CAPTURED Mentally-ill killer recaptured in south-central Washington (AP/Everett Herald) Friend helps officers locate escaped patient (Spokesman-Review) Insane killer apprehended (Seattle Times) Insane killer captured at Goldendale, Wash. (Sunday/Spokesman-Review) Killer escapes, thought headed back to Sunnyside (Daily Sun News - Saturday) Legislators question policies allowing dangerous criminal free (Snohomish Times - Thursday) EDITORIAL: Outrage aside, fair escape begs questions (Spokesman-Review) AGRICULTURE Perfectly organic (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Sunday) New head of USDA organic program hired from Washington (Seattle Times - Thursday) BUDGET & TAXES Public looks to stop state budget cuts (Olympian - Saturday) BLOG: Revenue forecast shows $238 million drop; special session unlikely (Brad Shannon/Olympian - Thursday) OPINION: Taxing the rich: It's not class warfare, it's just common sense (Neal Peirce, Washington Post/Oregonian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Oregon business: Stuck in the middle with you (Oregonian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: State needs to revamp budget processes (The Chronicle) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY China's factory muscle tilts U.S. solar playing field (Oregonian - Sunday) Cameron workers get shot at Norpac jobs (Longview Daily News - Sunday) Boeing loses in missile-plan shift (Washington Post/Seattle Times - Saturday) Venture plans to distribute assets (Olympian - Friday) BLOG: More Washingtonians eligible for training benefits (Karen Lee/Seattle P-I - Thursday) COLUMN: Germany is world center for solar research, engineering, manufacturing (Thomas L. Friedman/Olympian) COLUMN: WaMu's demise was lesson in regulatory failure (Jon Talton/Seattle Times - Sunday) OPINION: State government must work with business on jobs (Rogers Weed, state Department of Commerce/Bellingham Herald) OPINION: Competitors for Dreamliner face unemployment tax nightmare (Karen Keiser/Seattle P-I - Thursday) EDITORIAL: Change in a time of shortages (Wenatchee World - Saturday) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Medical marijuana law creates confusion in Wash. (AP/Seattle P-I - Sunday) Tribal officer due in court (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) Washington sending mixed messages on texting (AP/Olympian - Friday) EDITORIAL: Unfettered access to the courts (Seattle Times) DAMS Another step forward for removal of the Elwha River dams (Peninsula Daily News) Chehalis River dam sites identified (The Chronicle) EDITORIAL: Habitat plan safeguards dams as well as salmon (Spokesman-Review) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Students shuffle among public school districts (Everett Herald) Schools, students see impact of cash crunch (Seattle Times) Stimulus could help (The Daily World) Peninsula school districts on enrollment seesaw: Only three show growth (Peninsula Daily News) Bellingham schools providing options for students (Bellingham Herald - Sunday) Lakewood to vote on switch to fixed cameras instead of roving enforcement for school zone speeders (The News Tribune - Sunday) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES Region's preparedness impresses the state (The Columbian - Saturday) ENERGY & UTILITIES California competing for Washington's green power (AP/Bellingham Herald) California may pull the plug on energy-sucking big TVs (LA Times/Longview Daily News - Sunday) California's appetite for green power could boost rates here (Seattle Times - Sunday) New PNNL research could unlock promise of geothermal production (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) How might tidal project affect marine life? PUD gets grant to find out (Everett Herald - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Good Energy News (The Columbian) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Environmental Reclamation Service busy 'mining' lead (Yakima Herald-Republic) Wolves: majestic symbol or bloodthirsty predator? Debate divides Oregonians (Oregonian - Sunday) COLUMN: Why do environmentalists want to keep people from nature? (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I - Sunday) OPINION: Washington state's potential as global leader in medical innovation (Richard Gephardt/Seattle Times - Sunday) EDITORIAL: A national security issue (Everett Herald - Sunday) GUN RIGHTS BLOG: State AG: Nickels proposed gun ban against the law (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I - Friday) OPINION: Washington state must get serious about kids with guns (Dan Satterberg/Seattle Times - Saturday) HEALTH CARE Health care issues: Mandated individual coverage (AP/Bellingham Herald) Navigating the health care maze (Yakima Herald-Republic) No angry voices at nonpolitical health care forum on Bainbridge (Kitsap Sun) McMorris Rodgers leery of health reform (Spokesman-Review) County, state prep for swine flu vaccinations (Olympian) State lags in most teen immunizations (Spokesman-Review) Arming against a swine flu pandemic (The News Tribune - Sunday) Toxin reporting off to slow start in Washington state (AP/Everett Herald - Sunday) State lags behind national average in most teen immunizations (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Sunday) Obama says health plan 'not radical' (Politico/Seattle P-I - Sunday) Requirements on insurance have costs, benefits (The Columbian - Sunday) OPINION: The people can't afford to lose on reform (Molly Coston, League of Women Voters and Harold Abbe, Labor Roundtable/ The Columbian) OPINION: Health-care reform advice from Washington's chief insurance regulator (Mike Kreidler/Seattle Times) OPINION: Affordable health care is moral obligation (Rev. Meghan Davis, Longview Presbyterian Church/Longview Daily News - Sunday) OPINION: We all pay the price for failure of our health care system (David Cameron, M.D./The News Tribune) HIGHER EDUCATION Peninsula College receives $730,000 in three grants (Peninsula Daily News) New WVC dorm nearly full; classes begin Monday (Wenatchee World - Saturday) WWU president says help needed to fix budget woes (Bellingham Herald - Thursday) HOUSING New houses coming to Marysville for people with low incomes (Everett Herald) LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS State Supreme Court will consider whether Whatcom County allows rural sprawl (Bellingham Herald - Sunday) LEGISLATURE Idaho lawmakers say it’s time to ban texting while driving (Spokesman-Review) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Sequim City Manager-designate Stoner unsure whether he'll attend Monday's council meeting (Peninsula Daily News) Six key lessons from Portland's urbanism (Crosscut.com) A simpler path to annexation, a tougher one for the public (Kitsap Sun - Sunday) Reardon's budget would cut pay for Snohomish County workers (Everett Herald - Saturday) BLOG: Seattle mayor's office: The exodus begins (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I - Friday) MEDIA BLOG: Capitol bureau moves, Politics Blog goes on furlough (Brad Shannon/Olympian - Friday) EDITORIAL: News business must restore credibility (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Journalism's identity crisis: the emerging hybrid media (Seattle Times - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Reporter privilege legislation a step forward (Longview Daily News) EDITORIAL: Federal shield law needed to protect sources (Olympian) MILITARY Report: More troops needed for Afghan war success (AP/Seattle P-I) Boeing tweaks details of tanker proposal for Air Force (Everett Herald) Bid requests go out while tanker dispute simmers (The News Tribune) Homeless veterans offered community services (The Chronicle)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES It's Reed's call! Secretary of state could keep petition signatures secret – if he wanted to (Your Health Care Today) Activist spreads a warning about R-71 (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) OPINION: Exposing petition signers violates free-speech protections (Stephen Pidgeon, Protect Marriage Washington/Everett Herald - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Fraud’s not the issue in petition disclosure (The News Tribune - Sunday) ELECTIONS Study finds early campaigner catches the older voter (Spokesman-Review) LEGISLATURE OPINION: Civility protects everyone's right to expression (Rep. Hans Dunshee/Everett Herald - Sunday) LOCAL Candidate forum set for Tuesday (The Daily World) Minority leaders eye 'complete strangers' in Mallahan and McGinn (Seattle Times) Telephone poll about King County executive candidate Dow Constantine is assailed (Seattle Times - Saturday) McGinn releases immigrant, refugee policy (Seattle P-I - Friday) STATE Rep. Larsen rejects ban on ACORN funding, says more important issues for Congress to address (Bellingham Herald - Friday) SUPREME COURT EDITORIAL: Choosing judges on merit, not popularity (Longview Daily News - Sunday) NATIONAL House moves to extend unemployment benefits (AP/Seattle Times) Appeals court overturns campaign-finance rules (Washington Post/Seattle Times - Saturday) COLUMN: More stones thrown from Congress’ glass house (Larry Simoneaux/Everett Herald)
	SALMON EDITORIAL: Progress for salmon (The Columbian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Latest salmon plan flawed but Northwest's best bet (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) STATE GOVERNMENT BLOG: State Investment Board hires permanent top exec (Brad Shannon/Olympian - Thursday) TOBACCO Smoking ban near public areas where children play makes sense (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Friday) TRANSPORTATION Eagerly anticipated Stanwood train platform late, over budget (Everett Herald) Higher fares, new boat for Vashon foot-ferry service (Seattle Times) Bridge's future rests with federal grant (Seattle P-I - Sunday) Highway 9 plan targets traffic jams (Everett Herald - Sunday) Accidents drop following ‘rumble strips’ (AP/The News Tribune - Sunday) Leavenworth set for Amtrak arrival (Wenatchee World - Saturday) Money, political woes don't derail I-5 bridge designers (Oregonian - Saturday) State exploring the idea of selling naming rights for ferries (Kitsap Sun - Saturday) OPINION: Ferry riders should be grateful for taxpayers' help (Dan O'Neal/Kitsap Sun - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Take care in transit cuts (Kitsap Sun - Sunday) TRIBES Push to ban smoking in tribal casinos could land in court (Oregonian - Saturday) WAR AGAINST TERROR COLUMN: 9/11 victims deserve better (Daniel Kline/ Daily Sun News) WATER Grant will support further study of water storage options (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday)

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