Capitol Buzz: October 29, 2014
Washington House Republicans sent this bulletin at 10/29/2014 09:47 AM PDT|
Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. |
10/29/2014 09:43 AM PDT
www.houserepublicans.wa.gov
BUDGET & TAXES
- Boise, Broetje top property tax payers in county (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- COLUMN: Inslee climate plans: Heavy winds ahead (John Stang/Crosscut)
- EDITORIAL: Parks key to good communities (Everett Herald)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- BLOG: Asian market grows as two more airlines commit to buy Boeing planes (Sarah Aitchison/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Seattle is No. 8 in U.S. for job growth, Washington state is ninth (Ben Miller/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- OPINION: Delta, Alaska rivalry could mean big boost for Boeing (Don Brunell, Association of Washington Business/The Chronicle)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Lawyers, justices debate charter school funding (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Does class size matter? Research reveals surprises (The Seattle Times)
- Future of charter schools rests with state Supreme Court (AP/The Seattle Times)
- 2 Tacoma students charged for ‘joke’ threats (AP/Seattle P-I)
- Poulsbo student arrested for threat (AP/The News Tribune)
- Two Franklin Pierce High School students arrested after allegedly making threats (The News Tribune)
- Classes resume Monday at Marysville high school (AP/The Bellingham Herald)
- Teachers’ attorney says investigative records should stay sealed (The Spokesman-Review)
- Student arrested after reported threat to North Kitsap High School (Kitsap Sun)
- Tulalip high school classes resume after unfounded threat (Everett Herald)
- Students, teachers search for routine even as new threats made (Everett Herald)
- Visiting Sandy Hook parents know Marysville’s grief (Everett Herald)
- Seahawks roll out red carpet for Marysville Pilchuck football team (Everett Herald)
- Help available for kids affected by shooting (Everett Herald)
- Longview School Board seeks more time to meet new state graduation standards (The Daily News)
- BLOG: North Kitsap student arrested for allegedly threatening to ‘shoot up’ school (Lisa Cowan/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Washington’s charter school law debated in front of the state Supreme Court (Christina Salerno/TVW)
- COLUMN: Marysville-Pilchuck High shootings hit too close to home (Patrick O’Callahan, editor/The News Tribune)
- EDITORIAL: Selfless acts by high school athletes inspiring (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
- Already, some second-guess Marysville first-responders (Everett Herald)
- Fire official defends choice of Everett hospital for shooting victims (The Seattle Times)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Researchers turning wood waste into energy, agricultural resource (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Oil train wreck would be challenge, Spokane deputy fire chief testifies (The Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Debate climate policies without undue influence from people like Tom Steyer (Former Secretary of State Sam Reed/The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
GUN RIGHTS
- Court of appeals sends gun club case back to trial court (Kitsap Sun)
- COLUMN: Adults should be charged if kid gets gun, like they do in Texas (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
HANFORD
HEALTH CARE
- Washington Health Alliance: Insurers should be required to release cost data (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Mental health facility proposed at old hospital campus (Skagit Valley Herald)
- OPINION: Look for changes to Medicare enrollment (Jeff Underwood, United HealthCare and Medicare Retirement/Everett Herald)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- New CWU Medical Clinic director applies health model to campus (Daily Record)
- Pierce College worker fired for too much online browsing (AP/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Washington colleges take aim at preventing sexual assaults (Katherine Long/The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Port commission approves open meetings defense costs (The News Tribune)
- After public input, Bellingham City Council could change rental registration plan (The Bellingham Herald)
- Yakima drops portion of redistricting proposal (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Wenatchee moving toward fireworks ban (The Wenatchee World)
- Former Port Orchard councilman Warren Van Zee left a legacy of service (Kitsap Sun)
MARIJUANA
MEDIA
- Othello newspaperman named Columbia Basin Herald publisher (Columbia Basin Herald)
- FBI confirms it used fake story, denies bogus Times Web link (The Seattle Times)
- Seattle FBI admits to faking news report to drop spyware on teen’s computer (Seattle P-I)
- BLOG: Seattle Times: FBI crossed the line when it created fake news story (Rachel Lerman/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- EDITORIAL: FBI exploited press credibility in bomb ruse (The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
BALLOT MEASURES
- BLOG: Gun rights equal to gay rights? ‘No on I-594? fliers try to appeal to Seattle voters (Joe O’Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: A 2-to-1 statewide lead for Initiative 594 in KCTS-9 Washington Poll (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
ELECTIONS
- Election 2014: Guns, buses, kids and control of Olympia (Crosscut)
- OPINION: Election on pace for historically low turnout (Walt Washington, Kitsap County Auditor/Kitsap Sun)
- OPINION: State’s ‘politically engaged’ voters might break it off (Jim Camden/The Columbian)
LEGISLATURE
- In this election, it’s Republicans decrying ‘dark money’ (The News Tribune)
- Longtime Rep. Haler sees challenge from CBC student (Tri-City Herald)
- Sen. Sheldon says group violates campaign finance rules (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
- Senate Republicans call for formal investigations into mailers targeting Sen. Sheldon (Washington State Wire)
- Sheldon says ads purporting to support him are dishonest (Kitsap Sun)
- BLOG: GOP cries foul over mailers targeting state Sen. Andy Hill (Joe O’Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: In politics, tracking foes, allies proves troubling (The Spokesman-Review)
LOCAL
- Blaine’s $45M school bond has no money for school sought by Birch Bay residents (The Bellingham Herald)
- Prop. 1A mailer asserts rival pre-K measure leaves out low-income (The Seattle Times)
- Prop. 1B campaign overstates extent of preschool funding (The Seattle Times)
NATIONAL
STATE GOVERNMENT
TRANSPORTATION
- Blaine seeks federal help for delays at railroad crossings (The Bellingham Herald)
- Columbia River bridge at Astoria painting, repair to take until 2021 (AP/Oregonian)
- Kitsap, region band together for transportation (Kitsap Sun)
- Astoria bridge restoration work to take until 2021 (AP/The Seattle Times)
- State traffic forecast predicts long-term decline in travel miles (The Columbian/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Archaeologists start shell study at Highway 99 tunnel site (Mike Lindblom/The Seattle Times)
- OPINION: Being stuck in traffic costs us more than time (Richard S. Davis, Washington Research Council/The News Tribune)
- COLUMN: Bertha may have dodged a big bullet on dig material (Knute Berger/Crosscut)
- EDITORIAL: Travel transformed (The Columbian)
You can read our Capitol Buzz policy here.
Washington State House Republican Communications
461 John L. O’Brien Building
P.O. Box 40600
Olympia, WA 98504-0600
(360) 786-5758







