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• 4-H appeals to county (The Daily World)
• Farmers, county leaders to share ideas (Everett Herald)
• Kittitas County Farm Bureau gathering is set for Thursday (The Daily Record)

• OPINION: Keep services in mind when cursing taxes (John Burbank/Everett Herald)
  

• Boeing talks fall apart; S.C. likely to get 787 line (Seattle Times)
• SC Senate OKs incentives that could attract Boeing (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Boeing suitor in S. Carolina sweetens the deal for 787 line (Everett Herald)
• Unemployed hope Congress extends benefits once again (Bellingham Herald)
• Unemployed seek extended benefits (Tri-City Herald)
• Electric Boat to rent space at Port of Bremerton Industrial Park (Kitsap Sun)
• Demand high for Fibre's newest recycled paper (The Daily News)

• Sheriff, prosecutor beg budget relief (Spokesman-Review)
• County law enforcement goes high-tech (The Chronicle)
• Everett police coached not to open fire on vehicles (Everett Herald)
• Judge Charles Cone, who made thousands of court decisions, dies at 84  (Wenatchee World)
• Judge Hecht’s fate in hands of jurors now (The News Tribune)
• Corrections officer at Kitsap jail fired for sexual misconduct (Kitsap Sun)
• BLOG: Jail guard fired for suspected sexual contact with inmate (Casey McNerthney/Seattle P-I)
  

• Corps uses 400,000 gallons of grout at Hanson Dam (Everett Herald)

• New program brings hundreds of elementary students to Western for a day (Bellingham Herald)
• Cyber-ed keeps Yakima students in school (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Corps maps show Green River flooding scenarios (Seattle Times)
• Flood pros set strategy for Green, White rivers (The News Tribune)
• Flood watch issued for Lewis County (The Chronicle)
• Flood watch issued for Puget Sound, Grays Harbor (AP/The News Tribune)

• Grant PUD discusses energy conservation (Columbia Basin Herald)
• BPA proposes power line for SW Wash. and NW Ore. (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Richland gets look at 'smart grid' plan (Tri-City Herald)
• Avista earns $8.1 million for quarter (Spokesman-Review)
• PUD will use federal grant money for power grid innovations (Everett Herald)
• BPA seeks help determining route of new transmission line (The Daily News)

• Cougar suspected in eight Happy Valley lamb deaths (Peninsula Daily News)
• DOE issues violation notices to White (Wenatchee World)
• U.S. House agrees to Stehekin road rebuild (Wenatchee World)
• BLOG: Going camping or fishing in Clallam or Jefferson counties? (TVW)
• OPINION: Fido, a.k.a. the climate criminal (Jonah Goldberg/Bellingham Herald)

• EDITORIAL: Car seat confusion endangers children (Spokesman-Review)

HANFORD

• Moratorium on shipping radioactive waste to Hanford broadened (Tri-City Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Special cohort needed for Hanford workers (Tri-City Herald)

• Democrats struggle to find unity on health plan (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Chehalis woman becomes county's first swine flu death (The Chronicle)
• H1N1 clinics put on hold (Spokesman-Review)
• With H1N1 vaccine still in ‘short supply,' those most in need top list (The Columbian)
• Panic not a good antidote (Everett Herald)
• Wash mental hospital offers drama therapy program (Seattle Times/Yakima Herald-Republic)
• BLOG: Accountability for all (Jill Hodges/Seattle P-I)
• OPINION: Emergency rooms forced to do primary care for uninsured (Pat Justis/Olympian)
• OPINION: Holding health insurance companies accountable, finally (Rep. Jim McDermott/Seattle P-I)
• EDITORIAL: Don’t forget the pandemic (Wenatchee World)
• EDITORIAL: Vaccines to curb drug addictions have promise (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• NCAA lifts ban; EWU eligible for postseason (Spokesman-Review)

• Richland Housing Authority mulls more staff cuts (Tri-City Herald)

• Murray makes 'One More Attempt' at getting 787 line here (KIRO TV)
• BLOG: Murray trying to get Boeing and union together again (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Murray summons Boeing, union for more talks Sen. Murray asking Boeing, machinists to talk (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
• COLUMN: Boeing, Machinists and denial (Danny Westneat/Seattle Times)
• EDITORIAL: It’s the end game for Machinists and Boeing (The News Tribune)

• Lewis County extends development moratorium (The Chronicle)

• Former city manager dies at 94 (Spokesman-Review)
• County, ball club to sign 10-year stadium deal (Spokesman-Review)
• Departments vary in responses to budget requests (The Daily World)
• Bare-bones budget for City of Elma (The Daily World)

• The real Seattle circulation figures (Crosscut)

• EDITORIAL: Baird's transparency effort earns honor, but his colleagues still aren't on board (The Daily News)

• Port Angeles council mulls proposal for slightly lowering property taxes (Peninsula Daily News)

• Poll finds Washington voters leaning against I-1033 (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Federal judge rejects anti-gay rights group (Seattle P-I)
• Judge declines to suspend rules on R-71 contributions (Seattle Times)
• R-71 ahead, poll shows (Olympian)
• Gay-partnership foes challenge campaign laws (AP/Spokesman-Review)
• Sumner council voices opposition to state initiative (The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Local Google offices support R-71 (Nick Eaton/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: How will I-1033 impact Tacoma? Sen. Murray asking Boeing, machinists to talk (Lewis Kamb/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: The UW Poll: R-71 up, I-1033 trails (Brad Shannon/Olympian)
• BLOG: Washington Poll: ‘Approve R-71' has big lead, I-1033 votes still close (Sam Taylor/Bellingham Herald)
• BLOG: Colbert takes aim at R-71 (Sam Taylor/Bellingham Herald)
• OPINION: Public would regain control over government growth (Tim Eyman/Yakima Herald-Republic)
• OPINION: I-1033 will spell disaster throughout Washington (Bill Williams, Washington State PTA and Leo Greenawalt, Washington State Hospital Association/Yakima Herald-Republic)
• EDITORIAL: Opponents of R-71 resort to distractions (Seattle Times)

• Voters have one week left to return ballots (Wenatchee World)

• King County executive candidates differ on how to tackle budget woes (Seattle Times)
• Mallahan or McGinn? That is the question (Crosscut)
• Port of Port Angeles election campaign expenses exceed other Clallam races (Peninsula Daily News)
• BLOG: The mayoral candidates - some differences you don't get to read much about (Judy Lightfoot/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: UW Poll: Constantine leads Hutchison, Mallahan tops McGinn (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• COLUMN: Outside groups do candidates' dirty work (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

• BLOG: Governing Magazine recognizes Sam Reed (Brad Shannon/Olympian)
• BLOG: Sec. State Reed gets nod as national public official of the year (Sam Taylor/Bellingham Herald)

• How can Seattle make transit-oriented development work? (Seattle P-I)
• State plans to put a roundabout on Highway 9 (Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Wondering why the Alaskan Way Viaduct needs to be replaced? (Niki Reading/TVW)

• BIA rejects Little Shells’ bid for tribal recognition (AP/Spokesman-Review)
• Investigation finds no tribal authority for detention of hunters at gunpoint in Brinnon (Peninsula Daily News)