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Oct. 8, 2009

	AGRICULTURE Ag Tour goes organic (Columbia Basin Herald) BUDGET & TAXES BLOG: Taxes, taxes, taxes: Should candy be taxed? Income? An update. (Niki Reading/ TVW) BLOG: Off-road enthusiasts sue state because of 'theft' of budget funds (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Workers' comp hurdle about to get higher (Longview Daily News) Jury says Fresh Del Monte owes workers unpaid wages (Oregonian) Alcoa returns to profit as cost cuts, sales help (Bellingham Herald) Port Townsend Paper Corp. closes box plants in Canada (Peninsula Daily News) Gov. Gregoire touts Washington over S.C. for aerospace (Puget Sound Business Journal) Gov. Gregoire seeks tax extension for airliner repair (Everett Herald) OPINION: Removing barriers to business critical to state’s recovery (Reps. Norma Smith and Cary Condotta/ The News Tribune) COLUMN: Want to create real jobs? Get busy building high-speed rail in U.S. (Jon Talton/Seattle Times) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT County OKs settlement in Taser case (Spokesman-Review) Teacher jailed for inappropriate touching (The Chronicle) EDITORIAL: Drug Court deserves to be high priority (Longview Daily News) EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY Ready by Five gets $50K grant (Yakima Herald-Republic) Teachers Come to Bremerton to Study Early Learning (Kitsap Sun) Biggest chunk of tax levy would go toward re-opening shuttered schools (Seattle P-I) High school graduation rate subject of event Friday (The News Tribune) BLOG: Good data can help schools, if certain groups allow it (Peter Callaghan/Bellingham Herald) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES Opponents criticize Baird on 72-hour vote against flood money (The Chronicle) PUD wins appeal for disaster funds (The Daily World) South Hill Mall site of terrorism exercise (The News Tribune) ENERGY & UTILITIES Olympia man pursuing biomass plant in Longview (Longview Daily News) Energy project in Lynden gets federal stimulus dollars (Bellingham Herald) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Darigold ammonia leak kills fish in Issaquah creek (AP/Olympian) States' 'Pirates' ship too dirty for Calif. (Seattle Times) BLOG: Senator Murray is beginning to listen to you on Orca issues (Candace Calloway/Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Regional plan for steelhead recovery is right approach (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) FAMILY ISSUES 7 Muslim children returned to mom (Seattle Times) HANFORD Falls still problem for Hanford workers (Tri-City Herald) Hanford contractor improves tank farm safety (Tri-City Herald) HEALTH CARE Lawmakers urged to provide hospital safety money (Seattle P-I) Obama-backed health bill gains ground (AP/Seattle P-I) Providence St. Peter Hospital workers plan 1-day strike (Olympian) High school students, Vancouver hospitals run through flu drill (The Columbian) Rising health costs challenge Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon (The Columbian) Health care issues: Medical malpractice lawsuits (AP/Bellingham Herald) CBO figures give health-care bill a big boost (Seattle Times) Swine flu vaccine expected next week (Spokesman-Review) Eye surgery business grows more robust as Americans age (Spokesman-Review) Student behavior likely had part in spread of flu at WSU (AP/Everett Herald) H1N1 flu vaccine expected to be available by mid-month (Wenatchee World) BLOG: On TVW: Health care solutions that work (Niki Reading/ TVW) OPINION: Legislature can address state's health care issues (Reps. Larry Haler, Brad Klippert and Doug Ericksen/ Tri-City Herald) COLUMN: At inoculation trough, babies hog the good stuff (Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review) HIGHER EDUCATION Evergreen professor on leave in wake of school trips to Chile (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Visionaries helped shape University District (Spokesman-Review) HOUSING BLOG: Democrats working to extend homebuyer credit (Gerry Spratt/Seattle P-I) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Kitsap County to Take on $3.6 Million More Housing Authority Debt (Kitsap Sun) County forced to refund stimulus money for West Side Highway project (Longview Daily News) Centralia officials propose budget change (The Chronicle) State investigation of Clallam County Treasurer's Office grows (Peninsula Daily News) Executive, council in spat over county jobs (Everett Herald) OPINION: Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin (Chuck Wolfe/ Crosscut.com) MEDIA Promoter, former KJR DJ Pat O'Day keeps on truckin' (Seattle Times) MILITARY Army officers bristle at 'hand slap' (Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Congress Should Allow Women to Serve on Subs (Kitsap Sun)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Tax reform pickle: Pave roads or pay cops (The Columbian) OPINION: R-71 would help protect Washington families – like mine (Laurie Jinkins, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department/The News Tribune) OPINION: Referendum 71: Citizens have a right to know who is trying to change state law (Tim Ford, assistant attorney general for Government Accountability and the Open Government Ombudsman/Seattle Times) ELECTIONS BLOG: If your campaign signs are in the wrong place, they will be taken down, DOT says (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) LOCAL McGinn gets union support (Seattle Weekly) BLOG: 2nd District Democrats elect new chairwoman (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) OPINION: Take a breath, Seattle voters: Your mayoral candidates are getting better (Joni Balter/Seattle Times) STATE Builders to take campaign-finance lawsuit to trial (Olympian) BLOG: Builders refuse AG offer to settle illegal campaigning case for $900,000 (Brad Shannon/Olympian) SUPREME COURT EDITORIAL: Alexander has been outstanding public servant (Olympian) NATIONAL OPINION: America's human space program may die after Dottie flies (Don Brunell/ Daily Sun News)
	STATE GOVERNMENT State workers receive nearly $500,000 in bonuses, awards (Oregonian) State to reconfigure license plates (Olympian) Attorneys general office space hunt changes (The News Tribune) TOBACCO Governor blasted over anti-smoking program cuts (Yakima Herald-Republic) TRANSPORTATION Wahkiakum County commissioners reject temporary closure of Puget Island ferry (Longview Daily News) Rate increase for Puget Island ferry under consideration (Longview Daily News) County puts plug-in Prius to the test (Everett Herald) Beebe Bridge — both lanes — will be back in business Friday (Wenatchee World) BLOG: Newly issued license plates in Washington will have 7 characters, starting in November (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) BLOG: Tunnel plan breaks environmental laws, lawsuit says (Scott Gutierrez/Seattle P-I) OPINION: Columbia River Crossing: moving forward (Rich Brown, senior vice president of Bank of America and CRC task force member/Oregonian) TRIBES Detained at gunpoint by tribal police off-reservation, Brinnon hunters allege (Peninsula Daily News) WATER Kittitas County submits rules to end well moratorium (The Daily Record)

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