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Sept. 28, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Tours show value of local farms (The Daily World) BUDGET & TAXES State paying price for choice to sell future tobacco funds (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Property tax bills will go up even if your home's market value falls (Oregonian - Sunday) Lawmakers, business stumble into bitter tax fight (Oregonian - Saturday) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Tales from the unemployment line (Spokesman-Review) 747-8 to fly by year end (Everett Herald) Unemployment benefits extension proposed (The News Tribune) Good times return to Martinac (The News Tribune) What's government's role in making the Web secure? (AP/Seattle P-I - Sunday) Workers, schools lose as Boeing cuts tuition benefit (Seattle Times/The News Tribune - Saturday) Air Force issues new tanker request; Boeing says it’s ready (Puget Sound Business Journal - Friday) Charleston legislator: Boeing win likely (Puget Sound Business Journal - Friday) Gates Foundation invests $3B in WA state (Puget Sound Business Journal - Friday) BLOG: Senator says: don't "stack the deck" against U.S. companies (Seattle P-I - Sunday) OPINION: You don’t fuel economic recovery with taxes, regulations (Rep. Dan Kristiansen/Port Orchard Independent) OPINION: Tanker contract re-do will be closely watched (Tri-City Herald) OPINION: Business friendly (The Columbian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: A post-Russell call to arms for the needy (The News Tribune - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Move it, senators: Extend jobless benefits (Seattle Times - Sunday) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Skipping auto insurance isn't worth the gamble (Yakima Herald-Republic) Courthouse evacuated; suspicious envelopes determined to be a hoax (The Daily Record) Owner demands return of dogs seized in puppy-mill case (Everett Herald - Sunday) Insane killer who escaped had recently filed for bankruptcy (AP/Longview Daily News - Sunday) Escape call went to Crime Check (Spokesman-Review - Saturday) OPINION: Don’t be charitable with crimes (Gary Crooks/Spokesman-Review) COLUMN: Latest scandal is deja blue (Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Decision was correct in state medical merit case (Olympian) EDITORIAL: Perhaps it's time to consider local bike helmet law for children (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) EDITORIAL: Drug Court funding should be a high priority (Longview Daily News - Sunday) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY State grant to allow Federal Way district to expand teacher assistance (The News Tribune) 13 South Sound schools get nod for reading, math improvements (The News Tribune) College, preschool enrollments jump in latest census (The Chronicle) 4 local districts get stimulus school bonds (The Columbian - Sunday) NCW schools make it onto the 'A' list (Wenatchee World - Saturday) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES OPINION: Citizens need to question the Corps’ levee plan (Julie Balmelli-Powe/The Chronicle) ENERGY & UTILITIES Washington pushes for energy code changes (Daily Journal of Commerce) Avista holding public hearings on rate increase (Spokesman-Review) Natural gas drilling near Bickleton halted (Daily Sun News) OPINION: The new Northwest power plan is good start, but needs to attack coal plants (LeeAnne Beres, Earth Ministry; Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition/Seattle Times - Sunday) COLUMN: Energy saving begins with us (Tom Karier/Spokesman-Review) COLUMN: Good news, bad news on energy prices (Deirdre Gregg/Puget Sound Business Journal - Friday) COLUMN: Health-care debate too mild for you? Wait for climate-change politics (Paul Krugman/Seattle Times - Friday) EDITORIAL: Tank-toppers cause multiple problems (The Columbian - Saturday) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Cleanup of Palouse River murky (Spokesman-Review) Killer whales love to dine on chinook salmon, which could further endanger their future (Oregonian - Sunday) GAY RIGHTS Voters in Washington, other states, to weigh gay rights (AP/Olympian) GUN CONTROL U.S. forest officials set conditions for gun club (Everett Herald - Saturday) HANFORD Waste mixing being tested for Hanford vit plant (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) HEALTH CARE Keeping medicine from ill-use (Longview Daily News) Web site updates region's residents on swine flu virus (Longview Daily News - Sunday) Choices set Congress' health care apart (Olympian - Sunday) Lawmakers get same insurance as any federal worker (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) Proper hygiene, info best defense vs. all flu types (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) BLOG: How much do members of Congress pay for health insurance? (John Henrikson/The News Tribune - Friday) OPINION: Truth about Medicare proposals shouldn’t be scary to seniors (Becky Gibbons, Joan Bethel, nurses/Everett Herald) OPINION: End-of-life care should be expanded (John Laird/The Columbian - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Physician work force issues need attention (Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Cantwell amendment is key (Everett Herald - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Cantwell pursues genuine reform (Wenatchee World - Saturday) EDITORIAL: Baucus eager to craft winning health care reform legislation (Olympian - Friday) HIGHER EDUCATION EdCC union president reinstated as English teacher (Everett Herald - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Overhaul student loan system to help more students (Seattle Times - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Western on right track, despite cuts and tuition increases (Bellingham Herald - Saturday) IMMIGRATION EDITORIAL: 10 things you can do to close the immigration gap (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) LABOR Sultan teachers negotiate contract (Everett Herald - Saturday) Hastings probes plight of HWA security guards (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) LOCAL GOVERNMENT 2010 budget shortfall may push King County to tipping point (Seattle Times) As budget cuts loom, public safety a concern (The Daily World) Sequim council moves on to two other city manager candidates (Peninsula Daily News) Licata: is the mayor rushing the tunnel because of the election? (Seattle Times - Saturday) MEDIA William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies (AP/Seattle P-I) Beck's Sehome years focused on radio, arts and student politics (Bellingham Herald) BLOG: Glenn Beck: Schtick it to us (Ted Van Dyk/Crosscut.com) BLOG: Protests turn ugly outside Glenn Beck event in Mount Vernon (Monica Guzman/Seattle P-I - Sunday) EDITORIAL: The FCC should enforce its existing laws and tighten others to protect media's role in democracy (Seattle Times - Friday) MILITARY Time to revisit the stance on women's service aboard subs? (Kitsap Sun) Soldier knew 'duty and desire' (The News Tribune/Olympian - Sunday) OPINION: Shift in Europe missile strategy thoughtful, sensible (Congressman Rick Larsen/Everett Herald - Sunday) OPEN GOVERNMENT Ruling delayed on Bellingham public records case (Bellingham Herald - Saturday)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Forum to look at taxation limits (Olympian - Sunday) OPINION: How does my sexuality affect you? (Brian Willard/The News Tribune) OPINION: Coloradoan says tax-limiting initiative there has worked (Barry Poulson, Independence Institute/Bellingham Herald - Saturday) ELECTIONS There's a scandal brewing in the nuances of campaign finance law (Seattle Weekly - Thursday) LOCAL PDC won't investigate complaint by Buxbaum supporter (Olympian - Saturday) BLOG: McGinn to Mallahan: Come clean about viaduct taxes (Seattle P-I - Sunday) STATE State GOP convention scores big speaker: Mitt Romney (The News Tribune) SUPREME COURT OPINION: Judicial elections continue to serve Washington state citizens well (Deborah D. Fleck, King County Superior Court; Gerry Alexander, Washington Supreme Court/Seattle Times - Friday) EDITORIAL: Elections preferred (The Columbian) NATIONAL EDITORIAL: Despite promise, Group of 20 nations are back to using protectionist measures (Longview Daily News)
	SALMON Long history of 'fish fights' likely won't end anytime soon (Longview Daily News - Sunday) STATE GOVERNMENT Changes will make healthy food more accessible to WIC clients (Kitsap Sun) COLUMN: You’ve got to wonder who was running the asylum (Larry Simoneaux/Everett Herald) EDITORIAL: Time for state to take outsourcing seriously (Olympian/Bellingham Herald - Sunday) TRANSPORTATION Whatcom County to pay more for new ferry insurance next year (Bellingham Herald) Port Townsend campaigns to get new ferry named after S'Klallam Chief Chetzemoka (Peninsula Daily News) Keeping King County's tiny Navy afloat (Crosscut.com) State, city viaduct roles detailed (Seattle Times - Sunday) Wenatchee redraws Sellar Bridge plan (Wenatchee World - Saturday) The little town that could: Leavenworth's got a train (Wenatchee World - Saturday) Nickels budget outlines $600 mil for viaduct tunnel (Seattle P-I - Friday) OPINION: Portland's bridge to nowhere (Jon Haugen, Vancouver and former candidate Senate's 18th District/Oregonian) TRIBES Snoqualmie tribe votes to reinstate 9 members banished in election dispute (Seattle Times) Tribe denies sect’s housing project (AP/Spokesman-Review) Washington state Indian tribes: hunters without borders (Everett Herald - Sunday) WAR AGAINST TERROR ELF group warns of further vandalism (Everett Herald - Saturday)

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