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ABORTION

• Abortion foes, supporters rally in Everett (Everett Herald)

 

AGRICULTURE

• Marchers remember Chavez, always a friend to farm workers (Yakima Herald-Republic)

 

BUDGET & TAXES

• Legislators considering taxes on roll-your-own cigarettes (News Tribune/Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Gov. Gregoire: McKenna’s budget tips ‘not helpful’ (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
• OPINION: Tough economic situtation is not the time to cut safety nets (Sen. Debbie Regala, 27th District, D-Tacoma; Rep. Ruth Kagi 32nd District, D-Lake Forest Park/The Olympian)
• OPINION: Cutting needy’s lifelines an untimely budget proposal (Connie Brown, executive director, Tacoma-Pierce County Affordable Housing Consortium/The News Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: House Democrats must embrace reforms for sustainable path (Seattle Times)

 

BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

• Attendance up for employers, job seekers at education fair (The News Tribune)
• Port Townsend Paper praises biomass project court decision (Peninsula Daily News)
• EDITORIAL: Boeing’s bandwagon (The Columbian)

COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Feds stand firm on reforming SPD (Seattle Times)
• High court upholds jails’ strip searches (AP/ Kitsap Sun)

 

EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY

• New rules would protect Richland School District (Tri-City Herald)
• COLUMN: N.Y. schools try to shield kids from dinosaurs, dancing (Leonard Pitts/The Columbian)
• EDITORIAL: Step up to the School Improvement Grants opportunity (Seattle Times)

 

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES

• Columbia River nearing flood stage (The Columbian)
• Final county flood maps now available online (The Columbian)

 

ENERGY & UTILITIES

• COLUMN: With our oil and gas reserves, can we have energy ‘independence’ after all? (Robert J. Samuelson/Oregonian)

 

ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES

• Discover Pass now can be used for two vehicles (The Olympian)
• BLOG: Parks pass is now transferable to 2nd car (Jordan Schrader/The News Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: It’s time for Congress to impose tougher rules on lead bullets (The Olympian)

 

HANFORD

• Hanford offers sent to hundreds (Spokesman-Review)

 

HEALTH CARE

• Low overhead affords independent family docs more time with patients (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Unions spar over school worker health care change (The News Tribune)
• COLUMN: Libertarian argument against the conservative-bred individual mandate doesn’t match reality (James Armstrong/Oregonian)
• OPINION: Insurance exchange: paying more for less (Don Brunell, Association of Washington Business/Columbia Basin Herald)

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

• Students ready to take off with new careers in aerospace manufacturing (Yakima Herald-Republic)

 

IMMIGRATION

• EDITORIAL: U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Arizona’s anti-illegal-immigration law (Seattle Times)

 

LEGISLATURE

• Surgery set Monday for senator (AP/The Olympian)
• Members of the House called back to Olympia (AP/ Everett Herald)
• BLOG: Gov. Gregoire set to sign remaining bills, says budget progress is being made (Christina Salerno/TVW)
• BLOG: Lawmakers coming back Wednesday – deal or no deal (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
• BLOG: Governor signs bill to consolidate state purchasing (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
• BLOG: Film-tax break OK’d; repeals providing harder (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
• BLOG: Gregoire signs bill requiring PCO races on public ballots; they’ll be on 2012 primary (Jared Paben/Bellingham Herald)
• BLOG: Gregoire relents, signs scores of bills (Jim Camden/Spokesman Review)

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Proposed Seattle law would make it easier for women to breastfeed in public (Seattle P-I)
• Open house set for shoreline plan (Spokesman-Review)
• Franklin County seeking proposals for growth plan (Tri-City Herald)
• EDITORIAL: Franklin County has steep climb to restore confidence (Tri-City Herald)

 

MILITARY

• EDITORIAL: Massacre excuses: Guilt by association for U.S. troops (The News Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: Understanding PTSD’s impact (The Columbian)

 

OPEN GOVERNMENT

• State closes public notice loophole for ‘special’ city meetings (Kitsap Sun)

 

POLITICS

BALLOT MEASURES

• Washington Supreme Court will take up challenge to privatizing liquor sales (AP/Oregonian)

 

ELECTIONS

• As TV habits change, campaigns focus on how you surf Web (Seattle Times)
• Governor signs political advertising bill into law (AP/The Daily News)

 

LEGISLATURE

• Manweller hosts campaign kickoff in Moses Lake (Columbia Basin Herald)
• BLOG: Auburn School Board president Lisa Connors to run against Chris Hurst (Jordan Schrader/The News Tribune)

 

LOCAL

• County GOP fails to fill its slate of delegates (The Columbian)
• Jefferson Democrats endorse candidates (Peninsula Daily News)

 

STATE

• Cantwell refuses PAC money, but accepts it from special interests (Seattle Times)
• Doc Hastings will seek another term as 4th District representative (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• BLOG: New law may be needed to fill Inslee’s seat this year (Jerry Cornfield/ Everett Herald)
• In Washington state, Santorum and Paul camps try to deny Romney delegates (AP/Oregonian)
• COLUMN: A battle for Seattle: McKenna comes courting a Democratic bastion (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

 

NATIONAL

• Top Obama campaign donor accused of fraud (AP/ Everett Herald)
• Romney, Santorum reach out to conservatives (LA Times/ Everett Herald)

TRANSPORTATION

• BLOG: Light rail plans scrapped (Andrea Damewood/The Columbian)