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• Local abortion protesters take to the road to get message across (Kitsap Sun)

• Ag exports could help pull state out of recession (Columbia Basin Herald)
• Apple growers eye harvest (Spokesman-Review)
• Freeze spurs farmers to get wine grapes off vine (Tri-City Herald)
• COLUMN: Would irrigation project's completion prevent dust storms? (Lynne Lynch/ Columbia Basin Herald)

• Beaverton stadium deal is $59 million -- 60 percent from taxpayers (Oregonian)
• Lacey loses financing option (Olympian)

• Oregon jobless rate drops to 11.5 percent (Oregonian)
• Stimulus saves Oregon jobs, but most are in government (Oregonian)
• Biz economists: Worst of recession is over (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• OPINION: Consumers need protection from government (Star Parker, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education/Kitsap Sun)
• OPINION: Innovation will revive U.S. economy (Don Brunell, AWB/The Columbian)
• OPINION: An honest discussion about workers' compensation (Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Rep. Steve Conway/Seattle Times)

• Attorneys begin questioning jurors in Judge Hecht's trial  (The News Tribune)
• Verner foresees police cuts (Spokesman-Review)
• Police chief is suddenly America’s most wanted (Spokesman-Review)
• OPINION: Biggest civil rights roll-back since Jim Crow era (Mark Mahnkey, Washington Civil Rights Council/Everett Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Beware of magazine sales scam on your porch (Olympian)

• Nooksack Middle School has state assistant principal of the year (Bellingham Herald)
• COLUMN: Hey kids: Get a job! (Dick Lilly/Crosscut.com)

• South King County cities prepare for floods (Seattle P-I)
• 5,000 may need shelter if King Co. floods severe (Seattle P-I)
• King County seeks ‘mega-shelters’ in case of flood (Everett Herald)
• Flood wall of sandbags going up along Green River (KIRO TV)
• Mock terrorism attack in Carlsborg trains Peninsula responders (Peninsula Daily News)

• U.S. funds offer energy help (Olympian)
• Klickitat County wind project gets $178M in funding (Puget Sound Business Journal)

• State acquires land in Pend Oreille County (AP/The News Tribune)
• State closes purchase of property (Spokesman-Review)

• Powerball might be here by early next year (Olympian)
• Powerball here? Odds favorable (The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Powerball is coming to Washington next year (Joe Turner/The News Tribune)

• Swine flu suspected in Umatilla County deaths (Tri-City Herald)
• Peninsula physician patents device to help stem hospital infections (Peninsula Daily News)
• Lawmaker urges piecemeal reform (Spokesman-Review)
• Callers inundate health district's phone lines (Spokesman-Review)
• Seattle is fourth best in U.S. for residents covered by health insurance (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Baucus: 'Time to get the job done' on health care (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Analysts size up health bill in final stretch (San Francisco Chronicle/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Rep. Baird might reject health-care bill over 72-hour rule (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• WSU gives up Colockum lease; Chelan County could take it over (Wenatchee World)

• First step for new citizens (Everett Herald)

• Artist’s lawsuit doesn’t halt state’s repair plans for World War II Memorial (The Olympian/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Sen. Zarelli thinks special session needed in December (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• Commissioners to vote on control of Castle Rock utility systems (Longview Daily News)
• City looks to technology to serve its citizens (Seattle P-I)
• Report finds city needs to put $28M into water systems (Tri-City Herald)

• EDITORIAL: Technology doesn't change laws on keeping government open (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• R-71 signature case likely to spill past election (Everett Herald)
• Supporters, foes sound off on Referendum 71 (Everett Herald)
• Flood of last-minute cash against I-1033 (AP/Olympian)
• Seattle calculates Tim Eyman's I-1033 budget impact at $150M in 2015 (Seattle Times)
• Jefferson County assessor: I-1033 would 'repeatedly, permanently shrink' revenue base (Peninsula Daily News)
• EDITORIAL: Revenue cap initiative shouldn't target local governments (Longview Daily News)
• EDITORIAL: I-1033's cost outweighs savings, should be defeated (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• ENDORSEMENT: Approve R-71 to fulfill promise of civil unions (The News Tribune)

• COLUMN: The long reach of cold cash (Marie Cocco, Washington Post/Oregonian)

• Jefferson prepares to mail out more than 21,000 ballots (Peninsula Daily News)
• . . . And for Clallam, 45,747 ballots to be mailed by Everett mailing house (Peninsula Daily News)
• Mayoral candidates paint rosy economic future for Bremerton (Kitsap Sun)
• Pro-choice group targets Hutchison (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Fish look on at debate of King Co. exec candidates (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Constantine: Hutchison steers $ to global warming deniers (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: The mayoral candidates and knowledge-based land use leadership (Chuck Wolfe/Seattle P-I)
• OPINION: Keep city council race nonpartisan (Barbara Sondker. local resident/Longview Daily News)
• ENDORSEMENT: The Times recommends re-electing Reagan Dunn to the Metropolitan King County Council. (Seattle Times)

• BLOG: A witch's brew of political scares in Congress (Ted Van Dyk/ Crosscut.com)

• For pinks, it’s a record run (The News Tribune)

• Some protest new smoking rules at college (The Chronicle/Olympian)

• Work begins on local detour around Naches slide (AP/Olympian)
• Nile Valley in a state of upheaval (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Massive landslide baffles state officials (Seattle Times)
• I-82 construction nearly complete (Daily Sun News)
• Residents decry rail line plans (The News Tribune)
• New connector sets the pace for reformation of I-205 (The Columbian)

• Investigators get written report from S'Klallam on detaining Brinnon hunters (Peninsula Daily News)

• State recognizes quality of Lake Whatcom district's drinking water (Bellingham Herald)
• New policy allows collecting rainwater (AP/The News Tribune)