Capitol Buzz: August 27, 2014
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AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Gov. Inslee checks out progress on Roza Irrigation reservoir (Tri-City Herald)
- Governor intent on meeting water supply demands in Eastern Washington (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Judge asked to cut off extra water for salmon (AP/The Columbian)
BORDER STATES
- Intel’s tax breaks: Historic 30-year deal approved by Hillsboro, Washington County (Oregonian)
- EDITORIAL: Port of Portland labor dispute faces irreconcilable differences (Oregonian)
BUDGET & TAXES
- Washington AG warns high court of ‘slippery slope’ in public education case (The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: Court asked not to sanction Lege over school funding (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
- COLUMN: Europe calls out corporate tax schemes our politicians won’t (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- Weyerhaeuser moving to Seattle’s Pioneer Square (The Seattle Times)
- ‘Stand-up economist’: How to be optimistic about climate (Crosscut)
- Weyerhaeuser moving HQ from Federal Way to Pioneer Square, 800 employees affected (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Port of Vancouver’s 18-month labor fight is officially over (Joseph O’Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
- COLUMN: Shortsighted approach to tourism costs state money (Rob Smith/Puget Sound Business Journal)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Community, SPD talk about preventing a Ferguson here (The Seattle Times)
- Longview man arrested after allegedly damaging WDFW fish trap (The Daily News)
- EDITORIAL: Don’t dump the state’s sex predators in Pierce County (The News Tribune)
- EDITORIAL: Use of deadly force can’t always be avoided (The News Tribune)
DAMS
- Elwha River is free: Washington dams are rubble (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Collapsed dams worsened Twisp-area storm flooding (The Wenatchee World/The Seattle Times)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Washington state releases student test results (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
- BLOG: What it means for schools to lose control over Title I funds and No Child Left Behind waiver (Thanh Tan/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Lakeside basketball and Steve Ballmer, just the latest symptoms of a bigger problem (Robert J. Vickers/The Seattle Times)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Western Washington tribe brings protest against planned coal export terminal to Spokane (The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Politics to blame for coal roadblock (The Daily News)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- Fishing report for Aug. 26 (The Olympian)
- Workers pulverize Kittyhawk culvert to aid Chico Creek salmon (Kitsap Sun)
- Signs of sea-star recovery in California but not in NW (The Seattle Times)
HEALTH CARE
- No data on ‘psychiatric boarding’ (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
- Meetings aimed at gathering input on proposed health-care changes (The Wenatchee World)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MARIJUANA
- Does medical marijuana reduce painkiller overdose deaths? (Kitsap Sun)
- Seattle city attorney discusses issues around new pot law (The Seattle Times)
- Marijuana store open on University Way in Ellensburg (Daily Record)
- BLOG: A slow burn: Why Washington’s marijuana law will be better than Colorado’s (if it survives the Fife challenge) (Emily Parkhurst/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Legal pot sales surge in August (Kip Hill/The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Feds drag feet on banking access for marijuana industry (The Seattle Times)
OSO LANDSLIDE
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
LEGISLATURE
STATE
PRIVACY
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Hunter hired by Washington state kills 1 wolf (AP/The Seattle Times)
- Agency on Aging’s spending questioned (The Columbian)
TRANSPORTATION
- Traffic around JBLM affects city streets, not just Interstate-5, Lakewood leaders say (The Olympian)
- BNSF executive: Oil train safety can improve (The Columbian)
- County continues weighing Guemes ferry replacement (Skagit Valley Herald)
- BLOG: Bad drivers in Seattle? Here’s proof (Rob Smith/Puget Sound Business Journal)
TRIBES
- Three decades later, Stillaguamish finally get reservation (The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Expansion of casino will add to attractions (Yakima Herald-Republic)
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