Capitol Buzz: November 24, 2014
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BUDGET & TAXES
- Senate committee hears funding needs following Carlton Complex Fires (The Wenatchee World)
- About that audit: Business, tax collectors talk ideas for resolving appeals issues (Washington State Wire)
- Q&A with Department of Revenue Tax Policy Director Gil Brewer (Washington State Wire)
- Q&A with former Department of Revenue Administrative Law Judge David Dressel (Washington State Wire)
- BLOG: GOP’s budget metaphor oversqueezed (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: Sin taxes roll in (Jim Camdem/The Spokesman-Review)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- Labor dispute continues to squeeze NCW apple exports (The Wenatchee World)
- West Coast port slowdown threatens Mid-Columbia farmers, processors (Tri-City Herald)
- BNSF agrees to lease storage yard at Port of Kalama (The Daily News)
- Credit, debit card changes rely on retailers to prevent fraud (The Everett Herald)
- BLOG: It's official: Boeing loses out to Airbus in massive Delta deal (Sarah Aitchison/Puget Sound Business Journal)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
- Community wonders how to stop Capitol Boulevard bridge deaths (The Olympian)
- OPINION: Lynnwood joining in the efforts (Nicola Smith, Mayor of Lynnwood)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- EDITORIAL: Net neutrality is essential (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- EDITORIAL: Our forests are being shortchanged by Congress (The Spokesman-Review)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Task force suggests easing Hard Time for Armed Crime law for teens (The News Tribune)
- Body cam legislation in the works as more requests come in (Kitsap Sun)
- Court affirms sex predator’s lockup (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- OPINION: Worst-funded courts in the U.S.(Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Stephen Warning/The Daily News)
DAMS
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- School districts ponder transgender policies (The Everett Herald)
- Pilot program increases Centralia School District’s meal participation, revenue (The Chronicle)
- BLOG: School districts cutting programs since losing No Child Left Behind waiver (Christina Salerno/TVW)
- EDITORIAL: I-1351 complicates mission to help homeless students (The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Suspend I-1351 for state's sake (The Everett Herald)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Proposed oil terminal would be biggest in volume (The Columbian)
- Diverse group opposes oil plans (The Columbian)
- State agency could take over review of Grays Harbor oil terminal proposals (The Columbian)
- Inslee says state will act on oil trains (The Olympian)
- Safe Energy Leadership Alliance Summit 2014 (photos) (The Olympian)
- Boardman coal terminal documents offer rare glimpse into Army Corps' decision-making (AP/Oregonian)
- OPINION: Gateway Pacific Terminal: Pro: economic benefits, export growth potential outweighs traffic concerns (Bob Watters, senior vice president SSA Marine and Don Brunell, former president of AWB/The Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Gateway Pacific Terminal: Con: Proposed rail facilities would crowd tracks, increase traffic (Evita Krislock, board member of Earth Ministry and Dave Koch, farmer/The Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Fuel mandate could be risky (Jeff Bosma, president Fast Way Freight Systems Inc./The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Good news for both sides of coal fight (The Daily News)
- EDITORIAL: A history of subterfuge (The Columbian)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- Scientists may be cracking mystery of big 1872 earthquake (The Seattle Times)
- Southern Resident orcas defy recovery efforts (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Study: Millions of acres of state’s forests need restoration (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Cowlitz River Coho return sets record (The Chronicle)
- OPINION: What rains carry into streams is making them unfit for salmon (Tom Murdoch, Adopt-A-Stream Foundation/The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Replenish steelhead runs with return to hatcheries (Bob Heirmen, Snohomish resident/The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: Obama-Xi carbon cap pact a fraud (Charles Krauthammer/The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Carbon cap plans require legislative cooperation (Tri-City Herald)
- EDITORIAL: Water-quality proposals need response, and FDA must listen (Yakima Herald-Republic)
GUN RIGHTS
HEALTH CARE
- Failing to provide evaluations to mentally ill defendants is growing costly for Washington (AP/Oregonian)
- State tightens Medicaid orthodontia spending (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- State health officials push to protect kids from e-cigarette liquids (The Olympian)
- Health exchange makes advertising effort to reach Spanish speakers (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: State strips Speedos, rap artists from new insurance ad campaign (Lisa Stiffler/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Health exchange: still problems for a few (The Olympian)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Billy Rathje, University of Puget Sound student, named Rhodes scholar elect (The Olympian)
- Spokane colleges cooperate in pilot transfer program (The Spokesman-Review)
IMMIGRATION
- Did Obama's plan skip reforms for high-tech immigrants (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Local immigrants to consider their new options (Kitsap Sun)
- Farmers, workers want better immigration reforms (The Spokesman-Review)
- Herrera Beutler follows party line in criticizing executive action (The Columbian)
- EDITORIAL: Immigration debate requires sensitivity among strong views (The Chronicle)
- EDITORIAL: President Obama did what Congress would not and acted on immigration (The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
- Late Rep. Roger Freeman remembered as an inspiring, smiling leader in Olympia (The News Tribune)
- TV station caught in middle as Republicans complain about meetings (The Olympian)
- Lawmakers hear report on sexual exploitation of Washington's kids (Crosscut.com)
- Legislature tries remote testimony (The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: Lawmakers test remote testimony (Political Beat/The Columbian)
- BLOG: Manweller chosen for House leadership post (Mike Faulk/Yakima Herald-Republic)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- BLOG: Sawant: Is City Hall the stage for a socialist diva? (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I)
- EDITORIAL: Mayor Murray’s smart move to entice foreign trade to Seattle (The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Making the most out of development (Daily Record)
MARIJUANA
- BLOG: State Sen. Kohl-Welles outlines bill to transform marijuana regulation (Evan Bush/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: 3rd judge rules cities and counties can ban marijuana businesses (Evan Bush/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Third Washington city gets court OK to ban marijuana sales (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- EDITORIAL: Unchecked pot dispensaries are undoing I-502 (The News Tribune)
MEDIA
- Herald wins 1st place 'Newspaper of the Year' award (The Everett Herald)
- EDITORIAL: The Olympian is looking for a few good writers (The Olympian)
MILITARY
- Enlisted soldiers who became officers fight for pension benefits, with senators’ help (The Olympian)
- Crew takes care of warship in its final days (The Everett Herald)
POLITICS
LEGISLATURE
SUPREME COURT
STATE GOVERNMENT
- DSHS fined nearly $200K for failing to provide for mentally ill defendants (The Seattle Times)
- Sanctions for state's competency cases reaches $200,000 (AP/The Everett Herald)
- Officers recommend charge in Whitman County wolf shooting (AP/The Seattle Times)
- COLUMN: Is Gov. Jay Inslee an absentee governor or a patient strategist? (Robert J. Vickers/The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
- Ferries operations director fired (The Seattle Times)
- Washington fires senior official from ferry system (AP/The News Tribune)
- Metro fined over bathroom breaks (Crosscut.com)
- Sound Transit lays groundwork for $15 billion expansion vote (The Everett Herald)
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