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BUDGET & TAXES
- Budget deal said to be 2 minutes from agreement (The Olympian)
- Washington Senate passes bills seen as crucial to budget deal (AP/Oregonian)
- Lawmakers continue to work toward budget deal (AP/The Daily News)
- Deal Near on Budget, But Don’t Hold Your Breath for On-Time Finish (Washington State Wire)
- Lawmakers slog onward toward budget deal (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Budget impasse testing tempers (Spokesman-Review)
BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
- New liquor law will bring booze to Tacoma’s alcohol control zones (The News Tribune)
- Unemployment stays high for young in work force (AP/Oregonian)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Court commissioner denies motion to delay liquor initiative (Seattle Times)
- Stop? Go? States shape dilemma of yellow light (The Columbian)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- LCC tutors earn a spot on Gov. Gregoire’s All-Academic Team (The Daily News)
- Oregon high school students to face tougher graduation standards (AP/Oregonian)
- Test opt-outs get political attention (Everett Herald)
- BLOG: House votes to repeal I-728, create school finance panel (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
- OPINION: Education ombudsman helps with broad scope of issues (S. Wayne Duncan, child and adolescent clinical psychologist/The Olympian)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- BPA braces for strong spring runoff, excess power and wind power cuts (Oregonian)
- NRC issues final report on Columbia Generating Station (Tri-City Herald)
- U.S. facing glut of natural gas (AP/Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Making gas and energy affordable (U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler/The Daily News)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- Wash. House passes ban on toxins in kids’ products (AP/The Daily News)
- B.C. smelter loses to Colville Tribes in pretrial part of pollution suit (Seattle Times)
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
HANFORD
HEALTH CARE
- Autism may be linked to obesity during pregnancy (AP/Seattle P-I)
- Washington state on the front lines in battle over use of pain killers (Seattle Times)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Ex-Evergreen instructor who owes $119K for ethics violations has disappeared (The Olympian)
- Evergreen State college professor fined $120,000, then vanishes (KOMO TV/Seattle P-I)
- OPINION: Student loan debt is not ‘good’ debt (Michelle Singletary/Everett Herald)
- EDITORIAL: New Direction in Higher Ed (The Columbian)
LEGISLATURE
- Legislative Roll Call Report (April 6) (The Daily News)
- BLOG: Senate passes 2 reform bills; 2nd special session near (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
- BLOG: Could budget deal be near? Senate set to return Saturday (Christina Salerno/TVW)
- BLOG; Senate fig
hting may resume Saturday morning (Brad Shannon/The Olympian) - BLOG: Heated exchange about working Easter weekend (Christina Salerno/TVW)
- BLOG: GOP leader: Member’s motion to adjourn a ‘surprise’ (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
- BLOG: Lt. Gov. Owen cites 2009 precedent for breaking tie (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
- BLOG: Getting the Lege outta town (Jim Camden/Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: From The Sen. Pam Roach (Audio/Video) Files (The Washington Ledge/Austin Jenkins)
- COLUMN: Allowing Sen. Roach back into caucus is a costly risk (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MEDIA
POLITICS
ELECTIONS
LEGISLATURE
- Minority candidates difficult to find in state’s new Latino-majority district (AP/The Olympian)
- In new E. Washington legislative district, Latino candidates scarce (Seattle Times)
- Schools leader in running for House (The Columbian)
LOCAL
STATE
- Why Rob McKenna disagrees with Microsoft on same-sex marriage (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Candidate for Washington state auditor urges performance audits (Peninsula Daily News)
- Inslee wants any new dollars devoted to education (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Kilmer thus far the lone Democrat in race for 6th District nomination (Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Kilmer reports $358K after one month in 6th CD race (Brad Shannon/The Olympian)
- BLOG: Kilmer: Out of the gate like Secretariat (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
NATIONAL
- Coca-Cola ends ties to conservative law writers (AP/Everett Herald)
- OPINION: The facts vs. Mitt Romney (Dana Milbank/ Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Obama, the happy drug warrior (Debra J. Saunders/Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Our discourse could use more latitude, less attitude (Larry Simoneaux/Everett Herald)
TRANSPORTATION