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AGRICULTURE

• Asparagus harvest beginning in Eastern Washington (AP/The Daily News)

 

BUDGET & TAXES

• Gregoire reading fine print (Spokesman-Review)
• What it Took to Break the Logjam – Governor Tells of the Last-Minute Deal That Brought the Session to a Close (Washington State Wire)
• EDITORIAL: Long-needed budget fixes made at last (Spokesman-Review)

 

BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

• State’s foreclosures down markedly, at odds with national trend (The News Tribune)
• ‘Two Oregons’ show a bigger contrast than ‘two Washingtons’ (Oregonian)
• Millennium CEO: Taxpayers won’t pay for first phase of coal track upgrade (The Daily News)
• Sacramento business, community leaders say Kings owners must go (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Federal aid to help 570 K-C mill employees find work (Everett Herald)
• JOBS Act’s merits unclear, but it can’t hurt (Everett Herald)
• New taxes on roll-your-own smokes has businesswoman reeling (Kitsap Sun)
• EDITORIAL: Food industry regulations need to improve (The Olympian)

 

COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Supreme Court: Accident reports are public record (AP/The Olympian)
• State Supreme Court: Paralyzed cyclist due Montlake Bridge records (Seattle P-I)
• Spokane’s top cop: mistakes were made (AP/ Kitsap Sun)
• Developer first in state to plead guilty over stormwater pollution (Seattle Times)
• Washington’s New Juvenile Gang Court Program Already Lacks Funding (Seattle Weekly)
• BLOG: Supreme Court says WSP must release records (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)

 

EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY

• Changes will make GED test harder, more expensive (Spokesman-Review)

 

ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES

• Officials want more dairies to join clean air program (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• State commission to review wolf plan (Daily Record)
• OPINION: Gregoire needs to weigh in on proposed coal-terminal (Stephen Michaels/Seattle Times)
• EDITORIAL: The good and bad news of snow pack (Daily Record)

 

HANFORD

• CH2M Hill plans up to 400 job cuts before late September (Tri-City Herald)

 

HEALTH CARE

• COLUMN: Affordable Care Act’s health care reforms not enough to fix modern medicine’s broken system (Caroline Poplin/Oregonian)

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

• EDITORIAL: Seattle Community College is right to scrap protest restrictions (Seattle Times)

 

LABOR

• Ben Franklin Transit union critical of bosses (Tri-City Herald)

 

LEGISLATURE

• Gregoire says session was the toughest in her time as governor (AP/The Olympian)
• Attorney closer to filing hostile-work-environment suit over Sen. Roach’s return (AP/The Olympian)
• BLOG: Gov. Gregoire says this year was her ‘most difficult’ legislative session (Christina Salerno/TVW)
• EDITORIAL: A session short on ‘daring’ (The Daily News)

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Tumwater will stick with seven liquor outlets, pot-garden ban (The Olympian)
• $1 million from state paves the way for waterfront park (The Columbian)
• State money to help build Vancouver park (AP/ Kitsap Sun)
• Sullivan asks Reardon to move on garbage contract (Everett Herald)
• Commission delays vote on elected leaders’ pay (Everett Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Seattle should follow state’s lead in reining in overly generous pensions (Seattle Times)

 

MEDIA

• BLOG: KOMO’s Yeend to sign off morning show Friday (Casey Mcnerthney/Seattle P-I)

 

POLITICS

BALLOT MEASURES

• BLOG: Two more Catholic parishes say no to Ref. 74 signature drive (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• OPINION: Smokeless in Seattle (Dominic Holden, The Stranger/New York Times)

 

ELECTIONS

• Money for special election to replace Inslee not included in the budget (Kitsap Sun)
• Sunday’s Democratic caucuses won’t be like those in 2008 (Seattle Times)

 

LEGISLATURE

• State Rep. Roger Goodman drops his bid for Congress (Seattle Times)
• Goodman ends bid for 1st District House seat (Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Roger Goodman bows out of 1st District Congressional race (Jared Paben/Bellingham Herald)
• BLOG: Goodman: State house, not U.S. House (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

 

LOCAL

• Both parties’ Thurston County caucuses set for this weekend (The Olympian)
• Holiday running for Clallam County commissioner (Peninsula Daily News)
• Clallam sends new voter IDs (Peninsula Daily News)
• Democratic caucuses planned Sunday (Peninsula Daily News)

 

STATE

• Little-known state senator to face incumbent U.S. senator (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Uelmen withdraws from race against Herrera Beutler (The Columbian)
• State schools chief Randy Dorn announces re-election bid (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Randy Dorn seeks re-election as Superintendent of Public Instruction (Debbie Cafazzo/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Don Hansler announces candidacy for Superintendent of Public Instruction (Debbie Cafazzo/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Troy Kelley announces for state auditor (Kim Bradford/The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Inslee: The $1 million fundraising screech (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: Burner: From dissing Obama to backing Barack (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

 

NATIONAL

• AFL-CIO Super PAC to focus on voter turnout (AP/Everett Herald)
• Obama tax return shows 2011 earnings of $789,674 (AP/ Kitsap Sun)
• Democrat’s barbs at Ann Romney set off storm over women’s roles (New York Times/Seattle Times)
• COLUMN: As Romney takes command, Democrat boots it on working women (Knute Berger/Crosscut)

 

STATE GOVERNMENT

• EDITORIAL: Streamlined Funding (The Columbian)

 

TRANSPORTATION

• Metro tweaks its CRC decision (The Columbian)
• Brothers sue state to run ferry on Lake Chelan (Everett Herald)
• BC, Washington ferry officials to explore benefits of working together (Kitsap Sun)