Capitol Buzz is a daily roundup of online media clips produced by House Republican Communications. For more information, contact: Lisa Fenton, Communications Director, at (360) 786-7728.
 

 FOR MORE NEWS AND INFORMATION, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT: http://www.houserepublicans.wa.gov

• Tri-Cities Tea Party aims to halt excessive government spending (Tri-City Herald)
• BLOG: New report ranks Washington 26th nationally in state and local taxes (Politics Northwest/Seattle Times)

• Demands were clear to Machinists, Boeing says (Everett Herald)
• Did Democrats botch 787 deal? Republicans say so (Everett Herald)
• SPEEA fears long-term impact of 787 decision (Everett Herald)
• SC gov signing incentive package for Boeing (AP/Bellingham Herald)
• Boeing handing out layoff notices to 500 workers today (Seattle Times)
• Did Boeing just save Mark Sanford's job? (Seattle Weekly)
• Weyerhaeuser announces two-week shutdown (The Daily News)
• Weyerhaeuser announces mill curtailment (AP/Everett Herald)
• Lumber market rebound still more than a year away, Weyerhaeuser officials say (Longview Daily News)
• Frontier Bank parent posts $1.41 million loss (Peninsula Daily News)
• OPINION: McBoeing's dumb flight plan (T.M. Sell/ Crosscut.com)
• EDITORIAL: Don't blame Boeing (The Columbian)
• EDITORIAL: Keeping Boeing and its jobs in Washington must be priority (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• Sheriff proposes cutting jail superintendent (The Daily World)
• COLUMN: Kerlikowske realistic about drug policy (George Will/Everett Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Federal decision not to prosecute medical marijuana is sound policy (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• Internet buzzing with support for expelled Mead student (Spokesman-Review)
• Schools initiate nicotine screening (AP/Spokesman-Review)
• School absenteeism high (The Chronicle)
• Swine flu close to its crest; many schools reporting high absenteeism (Peninsula Daily News)
• Wash. state math test harder than most, study says (AP/Seattle Times)

• EDITORIAL: Once again, many tackle crisis by working together (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Some of the chill coming out of Avista bills (Spokesman-Review)
• Wash., Idaho Avista rates to go down (Olympian)
• Naval Base Kitsap receives top award for energy management (Kitsap Sun)
• Wind energy's success creates a power grid challenge (Oregonian)
• EDITORIAL: Smart grid will put our energy use in fast lane (Spokesman-Review)

• State panel upholds ruling against Chehalis developer (The Chronicle)
• Plan to slash area's carbon emissions passes second hurdle (Oregonian)

• Grants offer relief to poor in region (Spokesman-Review)
• Gates grants offer help for rural hungry (The Columbian)

HANFORD

• Hanford waste import moratorium questioned (Tri-City Herald)

• Visitors limited at area hospitals (Everett Herald)
• State's Democrats give health bill tentative OK (The News Tribune)
• Last walk-in flu clinic held (Spokesman-Review)
• U.S. House leaders unveil health bill (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• House health-care bill unveiled with fanfare (Seattle Times)

• College crowd keeps growing (Spokesman-Review)
• New UW program clears way to 3-year degree (AP/Spokesman-Review)

• Crowd protests potential loss of Bainbridge liveaboard community (Kitsap Sun)

• Union and county make deal (The Daily World)

• Teanaway plan draws heated opposition (The Daily Record)

• 'The Castle,' a private home, declared nuisance (Olympian)

• Chehalis council vetoes budget savings proposal (The Chronicle)
• County boots raceway operator; debts remain (Spokesman-Review)
• Proposed Benton budget cuts met with stunned silence (Tri-City Herald)
• Bellingham's Olympics center to live on after Vancouver Games end (Bellingham Herald)
• BLOG: County to Austin: You're fired (Jim Camden/Spokesman-Review)

• BLOG: Larry Stickney on why you should vote against Referendum 71 (Niki Reading/ TVW)
• OPINION: R-71 is inconsistent, erodes sanctity of marriage (Rep. David Taylor/ Yakima Herald-Republic)
• OPINION: Referendum 71 -- Get past hatred and support families (Rev. Jane Newall/ Yakima Herald-Republic)  
• OPINION: Initiative 1033 puts students at risk (Jill Massa, John Westerman and Jennifer Shaw/ Columbia Basin Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Locking in the recession (Wenatchee World)

• Taylor makes use of campaign time by listening (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Small-town mayors back conservative County Council candidates, hope to send message (Bellingham Herald)
• Fallout from state audit doesn't keep Sellers from prayer event podium (The Columbian)

STATE

• Dicks scrutinized as part of lobbying ethics probe (The News Tribune)
• BLOG: U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks among those being looked at in House ethics probe (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: Baird's transparency effort earns honor, but his colleagues still aren't on board (The Daily News - Wednesday)

• Public can comment on sturgeon, spring Chinook reductions (The Daily News)

• Government pays security employees caught in limbo (Tri-City Herald)

• Local company, racing winter, leads landslide rebuilding efforts (Wenatchee World)
• Repairs beach Port Townsend-Keystone ferry at least until midday today (Peninsula Daily News)

• As names of fallen come out, sense of loss hovers over Fort Lewis (The News Tribune)
• More details released on Fort Lewis Stryker brigade soldiers killed in Afghanistan (The News Tribune)
• Spokane solider killed in Afghanistan (Spokesman-Review)
• EDITORIAL: Fort Lewis forces pay high price for war (The News Tribune)