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• Care facilities face cuts (Spokesman-Review)
• State liquor board experimenting with seasonal gift stores in area malls (Seattle Times)

• Sterling execs hopeful (Spokesman-Review)
• Bankruptcies in state hit four-year high (Seattle Times)
• Latest whammy for state's banks: commercial loans (Seattle Times)
• State boosts Boeing pitch with money for worker training (Everett Herald)
• Wash state taps $1.5M for aerospace training (Puget Sound Business Journal - Thursday)
• EDITORIAL: Hold the Confetti (The Columbian)

• Consultant: Neither Maple Lane nor Green Hill should be closed (The Chronicle)
• Study puts penitentiary on chopping block (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• Large outcry over a small prison (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Oregon plan to deport prisoners early hits federal snag (Oregonian)
  

• Schools still seeing high absence rates (Wenatchee World)
• COLUMN: Democrats should take Obama's lead and push harder for education reform (Nicholas D. Kristof/Seattle Times)

• Emergency operations center coming to Columbia County (Longview Daily News)
• State warned gravel pit of slope instability 4 years before landslide (Seattle Times)

• Small spill 'horrifies' builder of giant yacht, prompts port move to tighten reporting rules (Peninsula Daily News)
• Toxic "red tide" closes northern Puget Sound to shellfish harvesting (Seattle Times)
• Greenhouse gas reporting subject of workshop (The Columbian)
• New Orca Calf Born to L Pod (Kitsap Sun)
• COLUMN: Real-world problems turn climate-change debate pragmatic (Lance Dickie/Seattle Times)

HANFORD

• DOE tests robotic arm to remove radioactive waste (Tri-City Herald)
• Hanford's vit plant reaches halfway mark (Tri-City Herald)

• More local swine flu deaths reported (Spokesman-Review)
• Everett nursing home accused of neglect after death of man, 97 (Everett Herald)
• H1N1 vaccine is here, but doses are limited (Wenatchee World)
• COLUMN: Health-care reform is now in the hands of the President Obama and Sen. Snowe (E.J. Dionne/Seattle Times)
• COLUMN: It's up to President Obama to resolve competing health-care reform proposals (David S. Broder/Seattle Times)

• UW eyes 4-year med school in Spokane (AP/Everett Herald)
• State community colleges to receive $6 million (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• 500 go on one-day strike (Olympian)

• County seeks pay concessions from workers (Spokesman-Review)
• Mayor's plan has no job cuts (The Daily World)
• Bainbridge Water Resources Manager Quits, Calls City 'Tough Place to Work' (Kitsap Sun)
• Port Orchard Lodging Tax Revenue Falls Short of Projections (Kitsap Sun)

• Student editors at Oregon college apologize for satire (AP/Longview Daily News)

• Fallen soldier honored step by step (The Daily World)

• Court exempts judiciary from disclosure (AP/Everett Herald)
• Judicial records ruled not public (The News Tribune)

• Court OKs release of R-71 petitions (AP/Spokesman-Review)
• Release R-71 signatures, court says, but appeal planned (Seattle Times)
• Ref. 71 petition sheets may be released to public (Olympian)
• Diverse group voices opposition to I-1033 (The Columbian)
• WW Council votes to oppose Initiative 1033 (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• A change of heart for Eyman?(Puget Sound Business Journal - Thursday)
• Oregon tax critics fear biased ballot titles (AP/Longview Daily News)
• BLOG: Appeals court allows release of R-71 petitions (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Federal judge: Petition signatures are a public record (Niki Reading/TVW)
• BLOG: Thursday Q&A: Mike Ragan, against Initiative 1033 (Niki Reading/TVW)
• OPINION: Money measures: Protect the services businesses rely on (David L. Vernier, Deborah Mott and John A. Calhoun, business owners/Oregonian)
• EDITORIAL: I-1033 puts unreasonable constraints on state and local governments (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• Fewer drop-off sites for election ballots (Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Mailing your Pierce County ballot will cost an estimated 61 cents this year (David Wickert/The News Tribune)

• 16th District candidates have similar platforms (Tri-City Herald)
• ENDORSEMENT: 9th District, House: Vote for Pat Hailey (Tri-City Herald)
• EDITORIAL: What I meant to say was ... (Tri-City Herald)

• Port Angeles candidate's B.C. obligations would keep him away three months (Peninsula Daily News)
• Sequim candidates clash over impact fees (Peninsula Daily News)
• Gregoire endorses Mallahan for Seattle mayor (Puget Sound Business Journal - Thursday)
• King County executive candidates exchange verbal jabs in televised debate (Seattle Times)
• Merger worth pursuing? Voters to decide (Longview Daily News)
• Most expensive race for Vancouver mayor too close to call (Oregonian)
• Official: Layoffs loom if fire levy fails (The Chronicle)
• Former coroner backs deputy, refutes challenger statements (The Daily World)
• District 2 race a tight one (Spokesman-Review)
• ENDORSEMENT: Robertson is best choice for Valley council (Spokesman-Review)
• ENDORSEMENT: Daily News endorses Weber, Melink, Makinster for Longview City Council (Longview Daily News)

• Castillo blasts Baird on no votes (The Chronicle)
• Rep. Adam Smith in hospital with collapsed lung (AP/The News Tribune)

• OPINION: Republican Women — Hear Them Roar (Kathleen Parker, Washington Post/Kitsap Sun)
• COLUMN: Good prospects for Republican gains in Congress, especially in the Senate (George Will/Seattle Times)

• Port exec: Hundreds of jobs at stake (Walla Walla Union Bulletin)
• Peace Arch Park exhibit denied Olympic extension (Bellingham Herald/Olympian)

• New proposal would move ferry Kalakala from Tacoma (The News Tribune)