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CAPITOL BUZZ ARCHIVES

Sept. 25, 2009

	BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Forbes.com ranks state No. 2 (The Columbian) Washington moves up on Forbes’ ‘best states for business’ list (Puget Sound Business) Life after Clunkers: Auto sales crash in Sept. (Puget Sound Business Journal) Pentagon prepares to reopen Air Force refueling-tanker bidding process (Seattle Times) Union asks Obama for Boeing edge in tanker deal (Puget Sound Business Journal) Boeing-Airbus tanker battle resumes today (Everett Herald) Analysts: Tanker criteria fair, but politics still a factor (Seattle P-I) Northwest gas prices keep rising as nationwide costs decline (Longview Daily News) BLOG: If Congress approves, jobless checks in Washington could last for 92 weeks (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: Let's review L&I operations before allowing tax increase (Yakima Herald-Republic) EDITORIAL: Some banks getting too greedy with big fees (The News Tribune) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Prostitution accusations untrue, bikini coffee stand's owner says (Everett Herald) Baristas hit with prostitution charge (AP/The Olympian) B.G. chiropractor convicted by jury of intimidating judge (The Columbian) Transient charged with kidnapping 12-year-old boy in Bellevue on Saturday (Seattle Times) Police sergeant placed on leave (Spokesman-Review) Detective files claim over suspension (Spokesman-Review) State land officers sworn in as sheriff’s deputies (The Chronicle) Sheriff bills state for expense of search for hospital escapee (Spokesman-Review) Spokane County sheriff to bill state $37,000 for insane inmate hunt (AP/Everett Herald) EDITORIAL: Escapes raise questions about how state handles criminals with mental illness (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Workers should face consequences in Eastern escape (The Olympian) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Washington poised to adopt national education standards (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Kelso schools are now on Twitter, Facebook (Longview Daily News) Special education squeezes district (Spokesman-Review) Peninsula schools win Great School awards; Clallam Bay one of six to win three straight years (Peninsula Daily News) Forum will focus on school reform (The Columbian) ENERGY & UTILITIES PSE natural gas rates dropping 16 percent (Seattle Times) BLOG: State: Natural gas rates will drop by almost $15 a month for average customer in October (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Ecology sends new agreement to Rayonier Inc.; changes may accelerate mill site cleanup (Peninsula Daily News) HANFORD Chopper seeks radioactive waste spread by animals at Hanford (Tri-City Herald) HEALTH CARE AIDS study hopes to build on trial's success (Seattle P-I) Gates Foundation to highlight U.S. global health successes (Puget Sound Business Journal) Children's liquid Tylenol recalled (Oregonian) More cardiologists making trips to Longview (Longview Daily News) State will allow some mercury-based preservative in some swine flu vaccine (AP/Everett Herald) School nurse shortage hampers swine flu response (Oregonian) BLOG: State health official: It’s OK to have mercury in swine flu vaccines, for awhile anyway (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: New Valley View Clinic a great partnership (The Chronicle) EDITORIAL: Reform Medicare (The Columbian) EDITORIAL: Cantwell offers healthy Rx for Medicare (The News Tribune) HIGHER EDUCATION Boeing to stop paying for many employees' education (Seattle Times) LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS County asks for court review on shoreline buffer rulings (Kitsap Sun) BLOG: Walkable cities? So how come pedestrian malls usually fail? (Chuck Wolfe/ Crosscut.com) LEGISLATURE EDITORIAL: Lawmakers must reform workplace insurance (Spokesman-Review) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Glenn Beck’s homecoming riles Mount Vernon (AP/Everett Herald) King County to end animal control services (AP/The News Tribune) Commissioners consider agency to collect court fines (The Daily World) METHAMPHETAMINE Police worry meth labs may be making comeback in Cowlitz County (Longview Daily News) MILITARY Top Retsil administrators may lack credentials required by law (Kitsap Sun)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Coalition launches effort to defeat I-1033 (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Approval of Referendum 71 attracts broad community support (Seattle Times) LEGISLATURE 16th District candidates share similar views (Tri-City Herald) LOCAL Mike McGinn comes out of the tunnel (Crosscut.com) Dow Constantine turns attention to suburbs (Seattle Times) Write-in challenger emerges in Centralia council race (The Chronicle) STATE BLOG: Mitt Romney to speak at Washington GOP convention (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune) SUPREME COURT Oregon Supreme Court rejects mandatory sentencing (Oregonian) NATIONAL EDITORIAL: Baird puts public interest first in 'time out' legislation (Longview Daily News)
	SEX OFFENDERS Ex-sports star sentenced for child molestation (Spokesman-Review) STATE GOVERNMENT Governor visits Kittitas County (The Daily Record) BLOG: State has oral history for former first lady Nancy Evans (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: State failing in effort to streamline government (Olympian/ Bellingham Herald) TRANSPORTATION State ferries shows off progress on new boat for Port Townsend (Kitsap Sun) Gregoire looks at new ferry under construction: 'I'm proud of this' (Peninsula Daily News) Sound Transit calls light-rail noise a public-health problem (Seattle Times) OPINION: Why the West deserves more rail service (Chris Blanchard/ Crosscut.com) EDITORIAL: Traffic deaths down and down (Wenatchee World) TRIBES Lummi's tideland survey has local benefits (Everett Herald) Tribal artifacts returned (Spokesman-Review) WAR AGAINST TERROR Graffiti threat looks like ELF’s work (Everett Herald) More protesters join lawsuit (The News Tribune) WATER Upper Kittitas County wells has governor perplexed (The Daily Record)

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