Capitol Buzz: Violence inside Western State Hospital leaving more workers injured, costing taxpayers millions; Seattle mayor proposes about $25M a year in taxes on Uber and Lyft
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09/19/2019 11:11 AM PDT
AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Help available to farmers impacted by drought (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Addressing farmer suicides remains a priority in Ag community (Washington Ag Network/KONA Radio)
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Hiring slows in Washington state (The Seattle Times)
- King County hopes to entice more film production with greater incentives (KOMO TV)
- France floats tariffs on US goods amid Airbus-Boeing dispute (AP/The Everett Herald)
- A divided Fed reduces rates but may not cut again this year (AP/The Everett Herald)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
- State panel on services for kids and families to meet in Aberdeen (The Daily World)
- Lacey ranked among “100 best places to live in America” (KMAS Radio)
- COLUMN: O.G.’s see the violence in Tacoma and say enough. ‘Our children are being killed’ (Matt Discoll/The News Tribune)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- McMorris-Rodgers, Peterson, establish 4-H Congressional Caucus (Washington Ag Network/KONA Radio)
- Marijuana banking bill might have easier time passing Senate with these new hemp rules (Washington/The Bellingham Herald)
- Trump bars California from setting stricter fuel standards (AP/The Everett Herald)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Jury to decide fate of former Pullman police officer accused of sexual assault of WSU freshman (The Spokesman-Review)
- Seattle police officer assigned to clean up homeless camps files $10 million claim, alleges polluted site made him sick (The Seattle Times)
- 107 DNA swabs mistakenly destroyed at Seattle Police Department evidence warehouse (The Seattle Times)
- Asotin County Commissioners preparing for residents’ new jail concerns (KLEW TV)
- Man indicted in alleged drug trafficking conspiracy found crossing Canadian border (The Bellingham Herald)
- Officer assigned to clean up homeless camps files $10M claim (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
- Washington Department of Corrections: Identifying solutions (KBKW Radio)
DAMS
- Corps mission: trying to fix a broken lock (The Columbian)
- OPINION: Can’t we seek common ground on dam/fish divide? (Jeff Sayre, former regional director to former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig/The Lewiston Tribune)
EDUCATION & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Seattle students marching for climate crisis Friday will not be excused, superintendent says (Seattle P-I)
- Inslee supports student walk out for climate change (KCLK Radio)
- Kelso School District focusing on math with coaches, curriculum (The Daily News)
- Kelso school district, community break ground for Lexington Elementary (The Daily News)
- ‘You Failed Us’: High school senior’s book examines the pain of racism in Seattle schools (KNKX Radio)
- ‘Worst I’ve ever seen’: Seattle schools experience unprecedented food shortages (KNKX Radio)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES & PARKS
- How climate change threatens our health in the Pacific Northwest (The Seattle Times)
- Washington to join California in fighting Trump administration’s attack on state vehicle-emission rules (The Seattle Times)
- Guest lecturer to discuss historic Washington weather (Daily Record)
- Feds propose major habitat protections for killer whales (AP/The News Tribune)
- WDFW will use drone to monitor Chehalis Basin restoration projects starting Sept. 23 (KMAS Radio)
- Poll: Americans somewhat confident in climate fight (AP/The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Rollback of air-pollution rules hurts health, climate and consumers (Matthew Metz, co-executive director of Coltura/The Seattle Times)
- OPINION: If climate change is a crisis, striking isn’t enough (Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment at Washington Policy Center/Crosscut)
- OPINION: Seattle’s 17-year-old climate champion isn’t striking for fun: ‘I’m striking for my generation’s survival’ (Jamie Margolin, founder and co-executive director of Zero Hour/Crosscut)
HEALTH CARE
- State survey shows teen vaping on the rise in Thurston County and beyond (The Daily Chronicle)
- Will combo pill catch on in U.S. to prevent heart attacks? (AP/The Everett Herald)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- WSU sets enrollment record with 31,607 students systemwide (The Lewiston Tribune)
- WSU Tri-Cities enrollment dips for a second year (Tri-City Herald)
- WSU’s freshmen class in Pullman down by 300 students (KQQQ Radio)
- WSU Everett grows a bit this fall (The Everett Herald)
- An act of white supremacy? Flyers reading ‘No White Guilt’ found on Wenatchee Valley College campus (iFiberOne TV)
- EDITORIAL: The Central season to start (Daily Record)
HOMELESSNESS
- Seattle looks to churches for help with tiny house villages — but continued tensions could complicate efforts (The Seattle Times)
- Kitsap Rescue Mission set to lose permit to operate overnight shelter (Kitsap Sun)
- Housing supply identified as major problem in Burlington homelessness (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Seattle could ban the use of hazardous RVs for housing (KUOW Radio)
LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS
LEGISLATURE
MENTAL HEALTH
MILITARY & VETERANS
OPIOIDS
OTHER STATES
- Members of Idaho governor’s salmon working group say actual solutions are still many meetings away (The Lewiston Tribune/The Spokesman-Review)
- Oregon climate group targets Boeing in hard-hitting cap and trade ad (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Gun storage safety law moves one step closer to Oregon ballot (The Oregonian)
- No special session to ‘fix’ Oregon’s death penalty law, says Gov. Kate Brown (The Oregonian)
- Reading, math scores drop across the board at Portland Public Schools (The Oregonian)
- Oregon schools deliver worst test scores in 5 years (The Oregonian)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
- Statewide campaign against Tim Eyman’s $30 car tab initiative kicks off (MyNorthwest)
- EDITORIAL: A new problem with paid signature gathering (The Everett Herald)
LEGISLATURE
LOCAL
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Airbnb made $9.9 million for Whatcom County hosts in 2018 (The Bellingham Herald)
- BHP reps talk potash at Hoquiam meet-and-greet (The Daily World)
TAXES
- Seattle mayor proposes about $25M a year in taxes on Uber and Lyft (Crosscut)
- Seattle Mayor proposes rideshare tax, guaranteed wages for drivers (Puget Sound Business Journal)
TRANSPORTATION
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE
- WDFW will be burning public lands to prevent wildfires (KXLY)
- Study: Climate change wildfire health impacts cost billions for Washingtonians (NW News Network)
- WDFW planning controlled burn in Colockum Wildlife Area (KPQ Radio)
WILDLIFE
- Feds seek expanded habitat protection as salmon, orcas battle climate change, habitat degradation (The Seattle Times)
- Second year of mountain goat relocations complete (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Man has rare sighting of 4 cougars along Cowlitz River (The Daily News)
WOLVES