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• Draft report outlines state prison cuts (Seattle Times)
• Consultant recommends prison close (Olympian)
• Draft report -- Penitentiary main institution closure among top options (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• Local officials quick to react to DOC closure study (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• Report targets job cuts at Walla Walla penitentiary (Tri-City Herald)
• Monroe prison off the chopping block (Seattle Weekly)
• Monroe prison dodges closure (Everett Herald)
• DeBolt criticizes juvenile facility study (The Chronicle)
• BLOG: Consultant: Downsize McNeil and Walla Walla prisons, shut down Rainier School by 2017 (Joe Turner/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: OFM consultant: Close the main DOC building, several residential rehabilitation centers (Niki Reading/TVW)

• License fees raise $1.4m for parks (Olympian)
• BLOG: “Opt-out” license fee for parks is working so far (Niki Reading/TVW)

• Foreclosures in Whatcom County among highest in state (Bellingham Herald)
• Monthly jobless numbers looking slightly better (Wenatchee World)
• Lewis County’s jobless rate drops, a little, to 12.1 percent (The Chronicle)
• Governor offers federal funds for aerospace (Everett Herald)
• OPINION: Real change is needed for economic recovery in Washington (Rep. Norma Smith/Marysville Globe)

• States letting inmates cut even more prison time (AP/Bellingham Herald)
• Lawyers offer dueling views of Judge Hecht (The News Tribune)
• Sen. Murray hails Peterson’s pick as E. Washington federal judge (AP/Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Appeals Court reject builders' records suit that dealt with Pierce County, ACORN (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• 8th-grade math scores up; no change for 4th-graders (Seattle Times)
• Oregon math scores improve slowly, other states surge ahead (Oregonian)

• Slide leaves many in distress (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Temporary road through landslide zone nearly complete (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Federal plan tries to balance economy, environment for western Oregon forests (Oregonian)
• Partnership ponders how to measure progress in restoring Puget Sound (Kitsap Sun)
• Free tours Saturday of $16 million Chelan River project (Wenatchee World)
• Environmentalists, state spar over TransAlta deal (The Chronicle)
• COLUMN: This camp is your camp (Knute Berger/Crosscut.com)

• Gun ban at Seattle parks facilities goes into effect (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Is Washington an open-carry state regarding guns? (Casey McNerthney/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Seattle Mayor sets date for gun ban at city properties (Casey McNerthney/Seattle P-I)

HANFORD

• Radioactive hoses removed at Hanford (Tri-City Herald)

• No quiet fadeaway for federal insurance option (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Health care issues: The 'trigger' public plan (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Health-care fight heats up with insurance campaign (Washington Post/Seattle Times)
• H1N1 emergency declared in Kittitas County (The Daily Record)
• Flu vaccine among health offerings during Project Homeless Connect (The News Tribune)
• West Nile virus confirmed in death of Sunnyside woman (Everett Herald)
• COLUMN: Scared of the flu shot? Let me take your place in line (Peter Callaghan/Bellingham Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Stop punishing Northwest states for efficient use of health-care dollars (Longview Daily News)

• Med school coming to Spokane ASAP, group told Wednesday (Spokesman Review)

• HUD cuts off funding to Richland Housing Authority (Tri-City Herald)

• Rainier School District requests mediator for negotiations with teachers union (Longview Daily News)
• One-day strike at St. Peter Hospital in Olympia (AP/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: State Motor Pool goes union (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• Castle Rock residents press lawmakers to take action on unfunded mandates (Longview Daily News)

• After audit, Pierce County Conservation District's use of tax money scrutinized (The News Tribune)
• Chelan County commissioners announce more cuts — 50 jobs (Wenatchee World)
• 31 layoffs in 'worst case' (Daily World)
• County seeks pay concessions from workers (Spokesman-Review)

• Signatures frozen, await fate (Olympian)
• Tim Eyman hands Bill Gates a cool million (Seattle Weekly)
• Eyman’s I-1033 would cap government growth (AP/Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Redistributing Knowledge: AARP Washington’s arguments against Eyman’s I-1033 lack important details (Sam Taylor/Bellingham Herald)
• OPINION: I-1033 will devastate education, health care and other services (Bill Williams and Leo Greenawalt/Seattle Times)
• OPINION: Initiative 1033 will bring fiscal discipline back to state and local governments (Tim Eyman/Seattle Times - Wednesday)
• ENDORSEMENT: Approval of Referendum 71 gives same-sex couples important rights, protections (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• ENDORSEMENT: Approve R-71 (The Columbian)

• ENDORSEMENT: 16th District, House: Vote for Laura Grant (Tri-City Herald)

• King County sheriff appears with Hutchison but says it's not endorsement (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Union furloughs: Where Hutchison, Constantine stand (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Hutchison: Have sheriff manage jails (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Budget chairman: Thumbs down on Hutchison jail plan (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: The debutantes brawl: McGinn versus Mallahan (David Horsey/Seattle P-I)

• Social Security makes it official: No COLA in 2010 (AP/Bellingham Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Faces of change are female (Spokesman-Review)

• Can salmon evolve to survive among fish-killing dams? (Oregonian)
• OPINION: Columbia salmon plan is legally and scientifically sound (Vern Frederickson and Gary Frederickson, Frederickson Farming/Oregonian)

• Portland commissioner Leonard wants armed water officers (Oregonian)

• Girls’ rapist receives 18-year prison term (Spokesman-Review)

• Victim's family sues over state's handling of killer (Olympian)

• Kalakala owner wants to bring aged ex-ferry to Port Angeles (Peninsula Daily News)
• Public can view plans for widening of U.S. 101 between Port Angeles, Sequim today (Peninsula Daily News)