Capitol Buzz: December 17, 2014
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AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Four decades of growth for retiring Tree Top CEO (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- State plans to modernize livestock tracking (The Chronicle)
- Judge refuses to invalidate embattled water rule (Skagit Valley Herald)
BUDGET & TAXES
- EDITORIAL: Inslee Must Respect Voters (The Columbian)
- EDITORIAL: Cities' strong case on budget (The Everett Herald)
BUSINESS, LABOR & ECONOMY
- King County to launch new restaurant grading system (The Seattle Times)
- Tacoma council advances sick leave proposal (The News Tribune)
- BLOG: Aerospace companies suck up space, drive construction boom near Everett (Sarah Aitchison/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: $19M worth of rotten apples per week: Port slowdown continues to hurt industries, workers (Sarah Aitchison/Puget Sound Business Journal)
CONGRESS & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- New law changes Forest Service cabin fees (The Wenatchee World)
- Congress restores business tax breaks for 2014, but they end Dec. 31. (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- U.S. Rep. Kilmer introduces bill to ‘reverse’ budget language that allows wealthy to give more in politics (The News Tribune)
- Congress votes to extend tax breaks through 2014 (AP/The News Tribune)
- U.S. Senate extends state's sales tax deduction for another year (The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: Derek Kilmer tries to strip campaign cash provision from spending bill Seattle Times (Kyung M. Song/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Congress should embrace one-topic bills (The Olympian)
COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT
- U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear ex-police officer’s appeal of Zehm case conviction (The Spokesman-Review)
- Sexual offenders and schools: When criminals live nearby (The Chronicle)
- Sexual predator must remain on McNeil Island, judge rules (Skagit Valley Herald)
EDUCATION (K-12) & SCHOOL SAFETY
- Inslee plans to add $2.3 billion to education budget, won't fund majority of class-size initiative (Washington State Wire)
- Education budget gets varied response from local officials (The Columbian)
- Funding K-12 education: What Jay Inslee would do (Crosscut)
- Edmonds School Board reprimands Superintendent Brossoit (The Seattle Times)
- Tacoma Public Schools expands preschool programs, on track to meet some goals by 2017 (The News Tribune)
- BLOG: Gov's plan would spur court sanctions, says state schools chief (Leah Todd/The Seattle Times)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Chelan County PUD imposes moratorium amid boom in power requests for data centers (The Wenatchee World)
- State awards Kelso $120,000 for LED bulb transition (The Daily News)
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
- State approves Kitsap’s new shoreline regs (Kitsap Sun)
- Gov. Inslee announcing environmental priorities (AP/The News Tribune)
- Locomotive spills hundreds of gallons of fuel between Kelso, Vancouver (The Daily News)
GUN RIGHTS
- Prosecutor won’t pursue some I-594 violations (The Chronicle)
- Lewis County officials issue press release addressing new gun law (The Daily News)
HANFORD
- GAO: DOE should consider adding more Hanford waste tanks (Tri-City Herald)
- Hanford waste storage tanks continue to deteriorate (AP/The Seattle Times)
HEALTH CARE
- Pierce County Council decides against advisory vote for mental health tax (The News Tribune)
- MultiCare and Franciscan Health propose jointly operated psychiatric hospital in Tacoma (The News Tribune)
- Bird flu confirmed in wild birds in Whatcom County (The Bellingham Herald)
- BLOG: Update: Exchange site back up after being down — again (Patrick Marshall/The Seattle Times)
- BLOG: State insurance exchange working well for Medicaid (Lisa Stiffler/The Seattle Times)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Panel urges UW to expand medical offerings in Spokane (The Spokesman-Review)
- BLOG: Students need more help with college costs, state council says (Katherine Long/The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- County council works to avoid 'nightmare' of possible shutdown (The Everett Herald)
- EDITORIAL: Hurdles to industrial development (Daily Record)
MARIJUANA
- Spokane County Commission votes to renew codes on marijuana (The Spokesman-Review)
- Suquamish Tribe won't rule out pot business (Kitsap Sun)
STATE GOVERNMENT
- COLUMN: Finally, Inslee’s big moment (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Fix the hidden costs behind prison labor (The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
- Carbon revenue for schools, roads ups ante in looming budget fight (Washington State Wire)
- Inslee wants carbon tax to fund transportation (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Inslee wants to fund transportation with a carbon tax (Crosscut)
- Inslee: Make big polluters pay for transportation projects (The Seattle Times)
- Inslee transportation plan ignores Southwest Washington (The Daily News)
- State: OK to restart digging of tunnel access pit (AP/Kitsap Sun)
- Bainbridge project earns $2.5 million state grant (Kitsap Sun)
- Welcome back to Boondogglia (Crosscut)
- Polling shows some public support for taxing carbon pollution in Washington (The News Tribune)
- BLOG: Inslee wants polluters to pay for WA transportation projects (Ben Miller/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Tunnel contractor gets green light to resume digging Bertha access tunnel (Steve Wilhelm/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Inslee proposes transportation plan with carbon tax (The Everett Herald)
- BLOG: Damage to Pioneer Square buildings near Bertha dig site is 'superficial,' WSDOT official says (Marc Stiles/Puget Sound Business Journal)
- BLOG: Digging to resume at Bertha’s repair vault (Mike Lindblom/The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Scale back ambitious STA plans (The Spokesman-Review)
- EDITORIAL: Public needs straight story about tunnel project’s issues (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- EDITORIAL: Pay-by-mile gas tax plan a bad idea (The Daily News)
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