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AGRICULTURE

• State seeks comments on field burning fees (Tri-City Herald)
• Washington, Oregon vineyards poised to benefit (Puget Sound Business Journal)

BUDGET & TAXES

• States’ tax coffers brim again, but not in this state (New York Times/Seattle Times)
• Next year’s budget could be $1.7 billion out of whack, Research Council says (Washington State Wire)
• New filing in 1053 case from Attorney General’s Office points out that tax bill actually passed (Washington State Wire)
• OPINION: Budget uncertainties ahead for Washington state (Dick Nelson, former Washington state legislator/Crosscut)
• OPINION: How to fix our broken state budget process (Cary Bozeman, CEO, Port of Bremerton/Crosscut)
• EDITORIAL: Earned income-tax credit helps in short term (The Olympian)

BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

• Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems to resume production Monday (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• EDITORIAL: The skies are full of jobs (The Columbian)

COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT

• State justices throw out pot conviction (AP/The Olympian)
• Report details how daughter was shot with officer’s gun (Everett Herald)
• Law enforcement crack down on guns in Seattle (AP/Kitsap Sun)
• COLUMN: Sold for sex at a tender age (Nicholas Kristof/Seattle Times)
• COLUMN: On the front lines in the battle against human trafficking (Lynn Varner/Seattle Times)

EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY

• OPINION: Less insult, more discourse: How Seattle should talk about schools (Alison Krupnick, former employee, Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development/Crosscut)
• EDITORIAL: Coalition’s education road map earns A+ (Spokesman-Review)

ENERGY & UTILITIES

• Canada pushes new route for Keystone pipeline (Everett Herald)
• PUD reports record energy savings (Everett Herald)
• Oregon’s low-carbon fuel standard faces legislative, legal hurdles (Oregonian)
• A new terminal to export coal exposes divided opinions in Bellingham (Seattle Times)
• BLOG: Railroad union sees no downside to coal trains (John Stark/Bellingham Herald)

ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES

• Spruce budworm outbreak expected to continue (Daily Record)
• State takes another shot at keeping Horseshoe Lake clean, less green (The Daily News)
• Spill causes die-off of salmon in Nooksack River (AP/The Daily News)
• Killer whales facing an airborne threat (Seattle Times)
• Greens, outdoor groups: Rebuild key road into Cascades (Seattle P-I)
• Free entry to Olympic National Park starting Saturday (Peninsula Daily News)
• BLOG: Wolf killers in Methow get off with probation (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
• COLUMN: Poison ivy, unholy holly, and lax weed laws (Eric Scigliano/Crosscut)
• EDITORIAL: Lessons not learned from Deepwater Horizon disaster (The News Tribune)

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

• BLOG: Rep. Larsen votes a
  gainst transportation bill with Keystone pipeline approval language (Jared Paben/Bellingham Herald)

HEALTH CARE

• 25% of adults in U.S. lack health insurance (Everett Herald)
• 2011 was a bad year for measles (Everett Herald)
• Herrera Beutler Medicare flier’s claims challenged (The Columbian)

HIGHER EDUCATION

• Charlie Earl to retire as chief of state community-college system (Seattle Times)
• Head of State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to retire (The Olympian)

LEGISLATURE

• Area lawmakers share laughs, visions at GOP luncheon (Yakima Herald-Republic)

MILITARY

• County approves land-use rules protecting base (Spokesman-Review)

POLITICS

BALLOT MEASURES

• Tim Eyman gathers signatures while Washington state’s supermajority tax rule awaits court ruling (Oregonian)

ELECTIONS

• Wash. parties seek new challenge on primary system (AP/The Daily News)
• BLOG: U.S. Supreme Court asked to overturn state primary (Jim Camden/Spokesman-Review)
• EDITORIAL: Democrats should quit fighting state’s top-two primary system (Seattle Times)

LOCAL

• BLOG: Veteran cop plans to run for King Co. sheriff (Scott Gutierrez/Seattle P-I)

STATE

• Seniors fail Hastings’ record on legislation affecting retirees (Tri-City Herald)
• BLOG: Jay Inslee talks about the race for governor, jobs and the special election (Christina Salerno/TVW)
• BLOG: Planned Parenthood backs Inslee, Inslee backs PP (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

NATIONAL

• Local woman seeks nation’s highest office (Spokesman-Review)
• BLOG: Obama in Seattle: Dave Matthews Band and bucks (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)

SALMON

• Officials seek tips on Nooksack River spill that killed young salmon (Bellingham Herald)

STATE GOVERNMENT 

• Washington state to cut another 1,266 jobs (AP/The Daily News)
• Online auction of Wash. liquor stores ends Friday (AP/The Daily News)
• Bidding for state liquor stores set to end (The Olympian)
• Man wants all 167 state liquor licenses (KOMO/Seattle P-I)
• BLOG: State: New contract saves $3M yearly on office supplies (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
• EDITORIAL: Washington prisons going ‘bi-petual’ (The Daily News)

TRANSPORTATION

• Would you pay $3 to use the SR 99 tunnel? (Seattle P-I)
• Makeup of Pierce Transit board changing, favoring smaller cities (The News Tribune)
• BLOG: Transit Cage Match: Subway vs. Monorail! (PubliCola/Crosscut)

WAR AGAINST TERROR

• JBLM unit entering Taliban insurgents’ Afghan stronghold (The News Tribune)