A second special session began June 12 - House and Senate leaders are meeting to find agreement on the 2013-15 operating budget.
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BUDGET & TAXES
- Reform’s big scorecard – Why some say session’s big fight was worth it (Washington State Wire)
- Local lawmakers: Budget heads in right direction (Daily Record)
- Lawmakers adjourn with balanced state budget (Daily Sun News)
- EDITORIAL: Compromise strengthens state’s financial future (Tri-City Herald)
- EDITORIAL: State should stay on task in reviewing tax breaks (Spokesman-Review)
BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
- Owners of the Sacramento Kings declare the downtown arena deal dead (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Boeing resumes bringing Russian engineers to Wash. (AP/The Daily News)
- Boeing takes ‘direct hit’ in Midwest tornado outbreak (KOMO-TV/Seattle P-I)
- Vancouver Best Buy among 50 stores to close (AP/ Kitsap Sun)
- OPINION: Innovate Washington group looks to create state business (Ali Madison/Tri-City Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Federal district in Seattle to test video cameras in courtrooms (Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Public should have right to see police videos (Seattle Times)
DAMS
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Northwest coal export projects could have ‘significant’ public health impacts, EPA says (Oregonian)
- Woodland School District lands state energy grant (The Daily News)
- Nuclear plant closer to license renewal (Everett Herald)
- New Navy center identifies energy savings (Kitsap Sun)
FAMILY ISSUES
GAY RIGHTS
HANFORD
HEALTH CARE
- National Medicaid companies want in on the Oregon Health Plan; lawmakers cry foul (Oregonian)
- Minimal cuts made to state long-term care; local providers relieved (The Columbian)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- EDITORIAL: CWU budget in the black (Daily Record)
- EDITORIAL: Ron Wyden’s plan to provide students more college information is only a first step (Oregonian)
LABOR
LEGISLATURE
- BLOG: And please take your tired turns of phrase with you (Jim Camden/Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Some rest for weary legislators (Yakima Herald-Republic)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- With lax oversight, mismanaged Oregon towns veer toward insolvency (Oregonian)
- EDITORIAL: Waterfront progress (The Columbian)
MARIJUANA
- Group wants Yakima to make marijuana ‘low priority’ for police (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Marijuana brownies, tea legal — B.C. Supremes (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
- Democratic caucus-goers eager to start stumping for Obama (Seattle Times)
- Wash. Democrats support Obama in caucuses (AP/The Daily News)
- Democratic caucus first step in picking delegates (Herald Everett)
LOCAL
STATE
- Inslee sends $155K in federal cash to state party (AP/The Daily News)
- Tea Party’s Wheeler to challenge Hastings for Congress (Tri-City Herald)
- COLUMN: What McKenna and Inslee aren’t saying (Knute Berger/Crosscut)
NATIONAL
- McMorris Rodgers could balance Republican ticket (Spokesman-Review)
- 3 years later, what’s become of the tea party? (AP/ Kitsap Sun)
- BLOG: McMorris Rodgers talks gender politics on CNN (Jim Camden/Spokesman-Review)
- COLUMN: Romney has an uphill battle trying to close gender gap (John Laird/The Columbian)
STATE GOVERNMENT
TRANSPORTATION