A second special session began June 12 - House and Senate leaders are meeting to find agreement on the 2013-15 operating budget.
AGRICULTURE & WATER
BORDER STATES
BUDGET & TAXES
- Manweller supports two-thirds amendment (Columbia Basin Herald)
- Down but not out: New tack for Richard DeBolt (The Chronicle)
- Federal budget cuts could affect state revenues (AP/Kitsap Sun)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- Scallop farmer thrilled to integrate former state ferry into operation (Kitsap Sun)
- Small-loan bill created to fit needs of both consumers, businesses (The Bellingham Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- McGinn, in about face, accepts monitor’s police-reform plan (Seattle Times)
- State high court to rule on death penalty in Carnation killings (The Seattle Times)
- Washington prison program shows signs of cutting crime (The Spokesman-Review)
- House OKs payback for wrongful convictions (The Spokesman-Review)
- Case against owner of gun in Armin Jahr shooting can proceed, appeals court rules (Kitsap Sun)
- Homestead boss Jim Wynstra agrees to $100,000 fine (The Bellingham Herald)
- House OKs compensation for wrongful convictions (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- BLOG: Autopsy comment bill passes Senate (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: City accepts monitor’s plan on Seattle police reform (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
- EDITORIAL: Set rules, limits for drone use (Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act aids Whatcom efforts (The Bellingham Herald)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Controversial class on race to resume — with changes (The Seattle Times)
- Wash. House looks to mandate schooling by age 6 (Tri-City Herald)
- Some appointments to new charter school commission puzzle advocates – One member participated in opposition campaign (Washington State Wire)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- Inslee, senators differ on climate issue (AP/Yakima Herald Republic)
- Bills address wolf control, compensation (The Spokesman-Review)
- Wash. Senate OKs killing wolves without permit (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Bellingham gas station shut down for months over environmental violations (The Bellingham Herald)
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
GAY RIGHTS
- Sen. Ranker’s father to marry longtime partner (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- OPINION: It’s time to overturn DOMA (Former Pres. Bill Clinton, The Washington Post/Crosscut)
GUN RIGHTS
- Lobbying intense for bill on gun limits (The Seattle Times)
- Wash. Senate endorses NRA child gun safety program (The Seattle Times)
- 2,500 expected Saturday at Olympia gun rally (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- BLOG: Measure over gun safety program stirs debate in Senate (Chris West/TVW)
- BLOG: Hundreds expected to rally for guns Saturday at state Capitol (Chris West/TVW)
- BLOG: Vote on NRA gun safety program becomes soapbox for some Senate Democrats (Melissa Santos/The News Tribune)
- BLOG: Gun debate flares in WA Senate (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
HANFORD
- The Hanford triangle, where radiation, engineers and Gov. Jay Inslee meet (Crosscut)
- EDITORIAL: Policy void dogs cleanup of N-waste at Hanford (The Spokesman-Review)
HEALTH CARE
- Olympia hospital workers plan to strike Monday over health costs (The Seattle Times)
- DeBolt tells labor unions he supports Medicaid expansion (The Chronicle)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- $66 million sought for new science building (Ellensburg Daily Record)
- Students seek debt-free path to higher education (Seattle Times/Yakima Herald Republic)
- House OKs wine tasting bill for under 21 studies (Kitsap Sun)
- 10-year plan addresses array of campus issues (Daily Record)
IMMIGRATION
LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS
- Property owners gain voice on council (Columbia Basin Herald)
- Tighter rules in store for Pierce County’s vacant properties (The News Tribune)
- Lake Chelan is unique, and, locals say, doesn’t fit with shoreline requirements (The Wenatchee World)
- New road to Camas promises new workplaces (The Columbian)
LEGISLATURE
- Tracking the Vote: March 9, 2013 (Yakima Herald Republic)
- Derelict vessel bill passes House (Kitsap Sun)
- A military pushback on a legislative bill favoring payday lender Moneytree (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- 49th District town hall will focus on CRC plan (The Columbian)
- BLOG: Bill to give state’s minority-contracting agency more teeth passes House on 72-25 vote (The Olympian)
- BLOG: Carrell’s bill adding protection for state-agency whistleblowers sails through Senate (The Olympian)
MARIJUANA
- House OKs telling stores how to handle dropped pot (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Centralia mom accused of letting 10-month-old son smoke marijuana (The Olympian)
MILITARY
- Military vets may get Wash. license designation (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- No bias found in PTSD diagnoses at Lewis-McChord (The Olympian)
- COLUMN: Cuts coming, but bill may preserve carrier work (Tom Philpott/Kitsap Sun)
OPEN GOVERNMENT
POLITICS
SUPREME COURT
NATIONAL
TRANSPORTATION
- House Republicans on State Transportation System: Fix It Before You Fund It (The Chronicle)
- State Democrats may have to listen to GOP transportation ideas (The News Tribune)
- Transportation taxes will be endgame issue, says Clibborn – Undaunted by poll, reform talk, bad news about bridge (Washington State Wire)
- Crews will slow bike, foot travel along I-205 (The Columbian)
- State Democrats may have to listen to GOP transportation ideas (The Olympian)
- BLOG: House Democrats aren’t ruling out Republican transportation demands (Jordan Schrader/The News Tribune)
- COLUMN: Lawmakers should intervene in rail dispute (Northwest Opinion/The Bellingham Herald)
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