Capitol Buzz: December 15, 2014
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AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Water fight ruling won’t mean battle ends (Skagit Valley Herald)
- Yakima Irrigation Project has a birthday (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Farmers object to fees for using Washington trails (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
BORDER STATES
- Oregon's economically pressed timber counties once again contemplate loss of federal aid (Oregonian)
- OPINION: How a carbon tax would affect Oregon's economy (Jeff Renfro, Portland State University Northwest Economic Research Center/Oregonian)
- EDITORIAL: Kitzhaber's bogus 'clean fuels' savings (Oregonian)
BUDGET & TAXES
- Inslee says if polluters were charged, state would benefit (The Seattle Times)
- Sales tax hike, income tax? Not likely (Crosscut.com)
- From carbon to kids: Inslee wants climate policy to fund schools (Washington State Wire)
- Inslee to stump for school funding, new taxes (The Everett Herald)
- Gov. Inslees announces his education funding plan (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- BLOG: Inslee: Cap-and-trade climate plan can fund schools and bridges (Jim Brunner/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: As Gov. Inslee asks for $1 billion more, where are the promised efficiencies? (Jonathan Martin/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Gov’s budget: Taxes not duct tape (Political Beat/The Columbian)
- EDITORIAL: Bridging the state budget chasm, and reaching across the aisle (The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Stand for Children adds its voice to chorus for education fix (The Everett Herald)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- Chances to lure industrial businesses are better with costly infrastructure already in place (Daily Record)
- Boeing workers donate $500K for job training (The Everett Herald)
- State program gives some businesses an alternative to layoffs (Yakima Herald-Republic)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- Congress expands Alpine Lakes Wilderness (The News Tribune)
- Bill with Stehekin Road, cabin fee provisions pass Senate (The Wenatchee World)
- Yakamas unhappy with defense bill provision to open Rattlesnake Mountain (Yakima Herald-Republic)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Court to weigh warrantless searches (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
- More supervision, less prison time sought for low-level criminals (The News Tribune)
- Drivers impaired by alcohol, pot focus of increased patrols (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- U.S. Supreme Court ruling on home care workers still reverberating in Washington (The Olympian)
- Lawmakers looking to toughen law against distracted driving (The Everett Herald)
- BLOG: Paroles & Pardons (Anita Kissee/TVW)
- EDITORIAL: Real crime progress — and real need for vigilance (Yakima Herald-Republic)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Handwriting expert to join probe of Seattle school’s high test results (The Seattle Times)
- Monticello Middle School makes the switch to a new grading system (The Daily News)
- State database shows difference in superintendent salaries (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- BLOG: Base teacher pay on local market rates? Issaquah lawmaker says yes (Leah Todd/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: State commission rejects Seattle charter school's correction plan (Leah Todd/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Spokane’s dropout turnaround proves resounding success (The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: STEM Key to State's Future (The Columbian)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- Rich, poor nations discuss different ways to combat global warming (AP/The Spokesman-Review)
- Chehalis Basin Flood Authority brings its plan to North Beach (The Daily World)
- State works on natural way to reduce flooding (AP/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- OPINION: Cooperative work will meet needs of farms, fish (Terry Williams, Tulalip Tribes, and Brian Bookey, National Food/The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: It’s time we accept wolves’ presence, right past wrongs (Ron Reed, President of Pacificad/The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Learning more on fate of forest land (Daily Record)
GAMBLING
GUN RIGHTS
- Thousands expected at Capitol to protest new gun law (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Hundreds protest I-594 at Olympia gun-rights rally (The Spokesman-Review)
- 1,000 protest new gun law at Washington Capitol (Tri-City Herald)
- Gun rights activists rally at Washington Capitol (NW News Network)
- BLOG: Gun-rights demonstrators bring signs, rifles to Olympia rally (Joe O'Sullivan/The Seattle Times)
HANFORD
HIGHER EDUCATION
- WSU board approves new teaching health clinic (The Spokesman-Review)
- Tri-City delegation should back WSU med school (Tri-City Herald)
- OIC says exchange director misses deadline to answer insurance commissioner's website concerns (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Big, new trend in health care: Telling patients how much their care will cost (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- New WWU program prepares nurses for future of health care (The Bellingham Herald)
- OPINION: Gonzaga-UW, WSU med schools both wins for Spokane (Rep. Kevin Parker, The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Long-term health care crisis looms large (The Olympian)
LEGISLATURE
- Republicans begin remaking Senate (The Spokesman-Review)
- State lawmakers talk about 2015 session (The Columbian)
- House Democrats name their committee chairs (Crosscut.com)
- Kitsap legislators get an early start on bills (Kitsap Sun)
- Community gathers for legislative send-off (Columbia Basin Herald)
- Sen. King to lead transportation committee alone in 2015 (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- EDITORIAL: Do you know who’s wining and dining your lawmaker? (The Seattle Times)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Seattle's affordable housing explained (Crosscut.com)
- Snohomish County Council: Sullivan accuses Somers of 'character assassination' (The Everett Herald)
- EDITORIAL: Budget's ripe for compromise (The Everett Herald)
MARIJUANA
- After rejections, Washington cannabis grower finally donates portion of auction proceeds (Oregonian)
- Kittitas council extends marijuana moratorium (Daily Record)
- BLOG: Retiring LCB chairwoman enjoying her marijuana brownies after knee surgery (Evan Bush/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Liquor board chair takes pot over pain killers (Mike Faulk/Yakima Herald-Republic)
- EDITORIAL: No surprise that pot laws will continue to be tweaked (The Spokesman-Review)
MILITARY
SECURITY
- Bush aides defend CIA interrogation methods (The Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Democrats’ ahistorical report on CIA steeped in hypocrisy (Charles Krauthammer/The Spokesman-Review)
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Broken prison labor program fails to keep promises, costs millions (The Seattle Times)
- Recycling scheme lost state $1 million (The Seattle Times)
- Murdered boy's family says state failed to watch killer (Seattle P-I)
- DNR demotes Carlton Complex manager (The Wenatchee World)
TRANSPORTATION
- Efforts underway to make alternative transportation options easier in Spokane (The Spokesman-Review)
- Bertha: Tunnel officials to brief City Council Monday morning (The Seattle Times)
- Drop in fuel prices could keep old aircraft flying longer, lessen new jet demand (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- McGinn-era tunnel study proving true: Bertha project was 'high risk,' geology a challenge (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Documents show fired ferry exec tried to help son (Kitsap Sun)
- New bridge planned over South Fork Stilly (The Everett Herald)
- OPINION: WSDOT explains the settling, liability and safety of the Highway 99 tunnel project (Lynn Peterson, secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Dip in gas prices could be chance to improve US highways, bridges (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
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