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Oct. 9, 2009

	TOP STORY: President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize (AP/Seattle Times) BLOG: For whom Nobel tolls (Politico/Seattle Times) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Boeing giving layoff warnings to 130 workers (Seattle Times) Can my boss really do that? (regarding swine flu) (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Business owners voice angst over construction (The Daily World) Moses Lake gets 747-8 tests to make room for 787 tests (Everett Herald) Aircraft cancellations plague Boeing (Everett Herald) OPINION: Nonprofits need help now more than ever (Rose Lincoln/The News Tribune) COLUMN: After health-care reform, Job 1 will be jobs, jobs, jobs (E.J.Dionne/Seattle Times) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Former Poulsbo Police Detective Files $13 Million Federal Lawsuit (Kitsap Sun) Johnsons indicted; mother surrenders (The Daily World) Town lacks police chief (The Chronicle) Group provides help for families of crime victims (Everett Herald) ENERGY & UTILITIES Biomass energy plant proposed for Longview (AP/Everett Herald) ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Summer dead zones off Oregon coast here to stay, OSU researchers say (Oregonian) Ocean dead zone off Oregon not as bad as past years (AP/Longview Daily News) EPA to Tacoma: Clean up your air (Puget Sound Business Journal) FAMILY ISSUES EDITORIAL: The child welfare system and people of color: We need a new strategy (Oregonian) HEALTH CARE Grant County declares swine flu outbreak (Tri-City Herald) Debate rages over using soda tax to pay for health reform (Oregonian) OPINION: Listen to words on health care, not delivery (Dr. Roger Stark, Washington Policy Center/ Columbia Basin Herald) EDITORIAL: Don't mandate flu shots for health care professionals (Longview Daily News) EDITORIAL: Flu vaccine holdouts could aid and abet pandemic (The News Tribune) EDITORIAL: It's time to pass meaningful health-care reform (Seattle Times) HIGHER EDUCATION EWU reports record enrollment (Spokesman-Review) Professor may sue Evergreen state college (The News Tribune) IMMIGRATION Adopted Vancouver teen faces deportation because no one did the paperwork (Oregonian) LEGISLATURE Richland's Haler plans coffee event Saturday (Tri-City Herald) LOCAL GOVERNMENT County, state differ on audit findings (Daily Sun News) Campaign to retain sales tax has been quiet (Yakima Herald-Republic) Vote ires council president (Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Others should follow Yakima County when it comes to budgets (Yakima Herald-Republic) MILITARY COLUMN: Military has reasons for excluding women on subs (Adele Ferguson/The Chronicle) OPEN GOVERNMENT State Supreme Court to hear sealed records case (Yakima Herald-Republic)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES Longview council makes its opposition to I-1033 official (Longview Daily News) Initiative 1033 may cost Vancouver millions (The Columbian) BLOG: Thursday Q&A: Tim Eyman on I-1033 (Niki Reading/ TVW) COLUMN: Eyman initiative gets an 'F' from teachers (Joel Connelly/Seattle Times) EDITORIAL: Reject Initiative 1033; right ailment, wrong cure (Tri-City Herald) EDITORIAL: Support referendum to protect rights for all (Spokesman-Review) ELECTIONS Online voting makes progress in Franklin County (Tri-City Herald) BLOG: BIAW rejects settlement, will battle on in 2008 election case (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald) LEGISLATURE Fagan, Hailey face off for 9th District representative (Tri-City Herald) NATIONAL OPINION: Faux fiscal restraint on the road to budgetary Armageddon (Rich Lowry, editor of National Review/Oregonian) EDITORIAL: ACORN's latest scandal should be last straw (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
	TRANSPORTATION Sound Transit ridership rises; funding takes hit (Seattle Times) WSDOT "pretty confident" in SR 99 tolling analysis (Seattle P-I) Todd Shipyards sole bidder for two state ferries (Puget Sound Business Journal) Builder of Port Townsend state ferry sole bidder on two others (Peninsula Daily News) Todd Shipyards Proposes to Build Two More 64-Car Ferries (Kitsap Sun) Schedule, Fare Changes on Ferries Start on Sunday (Kitsap Sun) New bridge gets a facelift (The News Tribune) Washington governor, BC premier celebrate Amtrak (AP/The News Tribune) Todd is only bidder for 2 Washington ferries (AP/The News Tribune) BLOG: Todd Pacific Shipyard says it will build 3 more 64-car ferries for about $55 million apiece (Joe Turner/The News Tribune) TRIBES Port Gamble S'Klallam official defends tribal police operating in Jefferson County (Peninsula Daily News) WATER Watershed report sheds light on groundwater concerns (Yakima Herald-Republic)

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