Capitol Buzz: October 24, 2014
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AGRICULTURE & WATER
BORDER STATES
- Oregon Legislature races: ‘Weirdest election cycle’ adds drama (Oregonian)
- OPINION: Beware the unintended consequences of pot legalization (Patricia Lidrich/Oregonian)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- Study: Cherry Point industries support about 9,000 jobs in Whatcom County (The Bellingham Herald)
- Boeing taps 737 and 787 lessons to better build the 777X wing (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: 274 Amgen employees to be laid off in December as company exits Puget Sound region (Annie Zak/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Microsoft reports $4.5 billion profit despite restructuring costs (Rachel Lerman/Puget Sound Business Journal)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Next-generation 911 will allow texting, with photos and videos to follow (The Spokesman-Review)
- Former Congressional candidate pulls over Grant County deputy (Columbia Basin Herald)
- COLUMN: Phone scammers prey on grandparents’ emotions (Julie Muhlstein/The Everett Herald)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Central Kitsap High School briefly on lockdown (Kitsap Sun)
- Ferndale drill helps police prepare for school shooters (The Bellingham Herald)
- Garfield students, staff stage walkout over loss of a teacher (The Seattle Times)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
- Tornado damages parts of Longview, Kelso (The Daily News)
- Skagit Valley prepares for flood season (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Tears, anger come out in hearing on Carlton Complex Fires (The Wenatchee World)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Oil & Water: A captivating, coming of age story – with sludge (Crosscut)
- County, Port of Kalama reach deal on environmental review for methanol plant (The Daily News)
- OPINION: Pierce County gets all risks, no rewards for surging oil train traffic (Tacoma City Councilman Ryan Mello and King County Executive Dow Constantine are members of the Safe Energy Leadership Alliance/The News Tribune)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
GAY RIGHTS
HEALTH CARE
- State, county below curve on immunizations (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- At KeyArena, they’re coming by the hundreds for free health care (The Seattle Times)
- Insurers settle class-action suits, agree to cover autism treatment (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Insurance goliath Aetna debuts in Washington state (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Traveler from West Africa monitored in Pierce County as part of Ebola checks (The News Tribune)
- BLOG: Paul Allen pledges $100 million to fight Ebola (Emily Parkhurst/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- EDITORIAL: Balance key in Ebola fight (The Columbian)
IMMIGRATION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Councilmembers butt heads on affordable housing (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Housing tax won’t help affordability (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Seattle Councilmember Godden: Sen. Murray wants women at every table (Puget Sound Business Journal)
MARIJUANA
- Seattle sends warning letters to medical pot shops; Bellingham waiting for state action (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
- How do you certify a crop that the feds still consider to be illegal? Organically (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: What happened to all the legal marijuana stores in Seattle? (Jonathan Martin/The Seattle Times)
MILITARY
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
- Opposing gun initiatives vying for support (The Daily World)
- BLOG: Everett police group asks out of TV ad for I-591 (The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Firearm background checks should be state responsibility (Kevin L. Schmadeka, Everett resident/The Everett Herald)
ELECTIONS
- Use of military photos, personnel in campaign ads can break rules (The News Tribune)
- From advertising to nail care, Washington campaigns spend bucks (NW News Network)
LEGISLATURE
- Taxes, jobs and wolves are issues in 7th District House races (The Spokesman-Review)
- South Bend conservative vying to unseat state Rep. Blake (The Daily News)
- QA 19th Legislative District — Brian Blake & Hugh Fleet (The Daily World)
- Thurston Dems’ flier falsely claims Kitsap reporter endorsed Irene Bowling in 35th (The Olympian)
- Coalition Caucus boosted Sen. Ericksen’s profile in the Legislature (Washington State Wire)
- BLOG: Baumgartner will refund unintentional MAC contribution (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: Your choice in the 17th: backed by “big union bosses” or someone with a “radical past” (Political Beat/The Columbian)
- COLUMN: The Eastside’s 45th District: Where your vote really matters this fall (Knute Berger/Crosscut)
- COLUMN: Democrats’ best hope for picking up a Senate seat is on Eastside (John Stang/Crosscut)
- EDITORIAL: Sleazy campaign ads reflect poorly on candidates (The News Tribune)
LOCAL
- Former PUD officials fined $250 each as part of PDC settlement (The Daily News)
- OPINION: City transportation vote: The way to be cautious is to say ‘no’ (Earl J. Bell, Professor Emeritus in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington/Crosscut)
- OPINION: All charter amendments are worthy of consideration (Marilyn Strickland, mayor of Tacoma; and, State Rep. Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma, and former chairwoman of the Charter Review Committee/The News Tribune)
STATE
- Immigration a hot topic in Keller-McDermott congressional race (The Everett Herald)
- McMorris Rodgers, Pakootas find plenty to disagree about (The Spokesman-Review)
- Didier campaign drops suit, mum on settlement terms (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- BLOG: Didier drops suit against Newhouse campaign volunteer (Cathy McLain/The Seattle Times)
NATIONAL
TRANSPORTATION
- 90-car Sealth staying on Bremerton route another week (Kitsap Sun)
- Work on Bertha’s repair pit halted after discovery of shells (The Seattle Times)
- Seattle tunnel project hits another snag (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- BLOG: Move over, Bertha (if you could); Tacoma has a prettier traffic poster girl (The Nose/The News Tribune)
- COLUMN: The dirt on Bertha (Knute Berger/Crosscut)
- EDITORIAL: Highways will pay us back (The Wenatchee World)
- EDITORIAL: End state’s neglect of transportation (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- EDITORIAL: A reminder about our failing roads, bridges (The Olympian)
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