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• Do Northwest apples need a trip to the tanning parlor? (Oregonian)

• Ag official says budget will be focus of legislators (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Boeing's race to the bottom (Seattle Weekly)
• Microsoft's job cuts 'complete' — for now (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Washington tourism lures fans with 'Twilight' page (Monica Guzman/Seattle P-I)
• EDITORIAL: State needs to become more business-friendly (The Daily News)

• Large motorcade to honor slain officer (Everett Herald)
• Civil rights trial of port protesters begins (Olympian)
• Elder-abuse law invoked to block fur protesters (Oregonian)
• Threat against police reportedly left at patrol car arsons (KIRO TV)
• As jail plan dies at polls, leaders mull next steps (Spokesman-Review)

• Cushman Hydroelectric plant gets federal stimulus boost (The News Tribune)

• Superintendent Marty Kay decides to step down (The Daily World)
• BLOG: Oregon school teaches how to grow pot (Monica Guzman/Seattle P-I)

• Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP (AP/Seattle P-I)
• Port Angeles council OKs 8.5 percent water rate hike (Peninsula Daily News)
• Verizon plan to sell landlines hits bump (The Columbian)
• Federal grant supports power, fish project on Skokomish (Kitsap Sun)
• OPINION: Invest in Seattle City Light to keep the lights on (Jorge Carrasco, Seattle City Light/Seattle Times)

• Thousands of NW seabirds killed by algal foam (AP/Olympian)
• Grain shippers asked to quit tossing pesticide canisters into sea (AP/Olympian)
• Detractors line up against state’s Spokane River plan (Spokesman-Review)
• Gray wolf management plan meeting set tonight in Sequim (Peninsula Daily News)
• EDITORIAL: Forest Service needs to better plan, inform public of burns (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• Gun laws, medical-marijuana laws at odds in Oregon (AP/The Daily News)

• Swine flu suspected in infant’s death (Everett Herald)
• Emergency declarations allow for flu preparedness (Wenatchee World)
• H1N1 vaccine demand also depletes supplies of seasonal flu vaccine (The News Tribune)
• H1N1 flu death is county’s sixth (Spokesman-Review)
• Tri-City H1N1-linked deaths up to three (Tri-City Herald)
• Swine flu virus is top strain worldwide (KIRO TV)
• BLOG: Public opting (Jack Lewis/Seattle P-I)

• Leading Heritage (Yakima Herald-Republic)

• More building loans in default in Pierce County (The News Tribune)
• BLOG: The next taxpayer bailout ... FHA? (Gerry Spratt/Seattle P-I)

• Bainbridge becomes latest city to look at car tab increase (Kitsap Sun)
• BLOG: McCarthy: Council’s use of emergency ordinance to cut Hecht seat was “curious” (David Wickert/The News Tribune)

• BLOG: Chart of the day: Television news -- increasing the partisan gap (Charles N. Wainger/Seattle P-I)

• Reservist survived Iraq but not his return to civilian life (Everett Herald)
• Federal grant will help establish veteran drug court in Pierce County (The News Tribune)
• Military families gain advocate (Spokesman-Review)

• Gay rights measure’s slim lead holds (Everett Herald)
• Gay-rights support stops at Cascades (Seattle Times)
• WA voters approving rights for same-sex couples (AP/The News Tribune)
• NCW rejects ‘everything but marriage’ (Wenatchee World)
• R-71 gains wider lead, but foes not ready to concede (Olympian)
• R-71 passage pleases Glenoma couple (The Chronicle)
• Moeller praises voters who endorsed R-71 (The Columbian)
• Tim Eyman loses this time around, but is unlikely to go away (AP/Everett Herald)

• BLOG: Gay rights measure extends lead (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)

• BLOG: R-71 will squeak through, says Washington Poll (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

• BLOG: Sen. Murray declares a win for same-sex partners (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• BLOG: A couple election measures, a couple election lessons (Jerry Cornfield/Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Late count: R-71 still passing (John Henrikson/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: King County gives R-71 a boost, as expected (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: A historic vote for fairness (Everett Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Rejection of Initiative 1033 isn't signal to raise taxes (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• EDITORIAL: I-1033 collided with a hard-times budget (The News Tribune)

• GOP sees hope; King County continues control of state (The Chronicle)
• BLOG: Ranked choice voting advocate: Maybe we’ll try again (David Wickert/The News Tribune)
• COLUMN: Voters’ anger lost at town halls and TEA parties (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
• COLUMN: Progressive, anti-Eyman voters are not only in King County (Floyd McKay/ Crosscut.com)

• GOP beats only rural Eastern Washington Democrat legislator (AP/Everett Herald)
• Nealey captures House seat (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

• McGinn’s lead shrinks in Seattle mayor race (AP/Everett Herald)
• Only 462 votes separate candidates in mayor's race (Seattle Times)
• County executive-elect Constantine names team (Seattle Times)
• Susan Hutchison's stealth campaign fizzles (Seattle Times)
• Kittitas County voter turnout 'pretty similar' to standard off-year election (The Daily Record)
• BLOG: Hutchison concedes King Co. exec's race (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: McGinn still leads Mallahan, barely (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Another slow day at election central (Matt Fikse/ Crosscut.com)
• BLOG: From 'Evening Magazine' to Sammamish City Council (Feliks Banel/ Crosscut.com)

• BLOG: GOP's King Co. problem: Abe Lincoln couldn't win in Seattle (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Biden luncheon postponed (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: State GOP claims a few wins in Tuesday's voting (Brad Shannon/Olympian)

• Democrats say election losses give new urgency to agenda (New York Times/Seattle Times)
• Voters to pols: Give us jobs, results, not spats (AP/The Columbian)
• COLUMN: Election signals problems for Obama's party (David Broder/Seattle Times)
• COLUMN: Not right wing, but still angry (E.J. Dionne/Oregonian)
• OPINION: What lies beneath the political anger (Bill Perkins, Oregonian)

• OPINION: Looking at hatcheries through a habitat lens (Billy Frank, Jr., Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission/Bellingham Herald)

• Former Forks officer's communication with young sex assault victim triggers sentence on misdemeanor charge (Peninsula Daily News)

• State liquor board cancels security contract with HWA (Tri-City Herald)

• Steilacoom II ferry might be back in service Friday morning (Peninsula Daily News)