Associated Press
State asks appeals court to throw out competency ruling
State plans to start regular 529 college-savings program
Western governors endorse prescreening tourists outside US
Aberdeen Daily World
Letter: Feeling burned
Columbian
State lawmakers struggle with ‘paramount duty’ of funding education
Oil terminal: A Q&A of what happens next
Op-Ed: Closing loophole will aid mentally ill, state’s taxpayers (Moeller)
The Daily News
Op-Ed by Rep. Rossetti: Let’s give working families—not Wall Street—a tax break
News Tribune (subscription required)
Hans Dunshee, new House budget writer, is a big personality at state Capitol (Dunshee, Carlyle, Hunter)
VIDEO: State Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, plays the tinwhistle (Dunshee)
Clinic hopes to offer methadone treatment in Puyallup; city not yet sure
Decades long wait on SR 167 nearing an end
VIDEO: Gov. Inslee unveils SR 167 signs
Tensions build in legal battle between McCarthy and Lindquist over phone records case
State Auditor Troy Kelley wins his money back
Op-Ed: Matt Driscoll: Tacoma poised to launch a ‘Safe Routes to School’ program
Op-Ed: Protest sale of high-quality station KPLU to KUOW
Editorial: Western State Hospital is broken, needs fixing
Editorial: Public shootings put police in path of more bullets
The New Yorker
Fishers of the Yakama Nation
Olympian (subscription required)
Op-Ed: Washington consumers need hearing coverage
Peninsula Daily News
Boost budget for Olympic National Park, supporters plead
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Group Health acquisition by Kaiser draws worry and praise
Seattle to Comcast: We want contract deal like Philly got
Charter schools in state may join small district near Spokane
State AG files brief backing Obama immigration appeal
Ethics board looks at lawmakers’ meal limit (Hunt)
Free ORCA cards for low-income students next year
Editorial: What’s in a tax break? We should all know (Carlyle)
Editorial: No Child Left Behind education law getting needed reboot
Editorial: Don’t conflate violent acts as representative of all of Islam
Editorial: Good news for the state: Congress restores Export-Import Bank
Seattle Weekly
Mayor and Advocates Talk Homeless Crisis at Seattle University
Spokesman Review
Supreme Court lets local ban on assault weapons stand
Three years in, legal marijuana sales soaring in Washington state
Getting There: New federal highway bill to help Spokane region
Katherine Merck, Spokane native and GU law student, crowned Miss Rodeo America
Kaiser’s Trentwood plant continues to reinvent itself
Spokane judge orders Lyft, Uber to provide ridership records
Editorial: McIntire’s tax plan better than Washington state’s present system
Editorial: Education reform nears final test
Editorial: Impeach Auditor Troy Kelley if he won’t resign
Editorial: Strengthen protections for sexual assault victims
Tri-City Herald
State money to improve Richland, Pasco sports fields
Editorial: State officials must quit using jails for the mentally ill
Vancouver Business Journal
Fish & Wildlife in talks to bring regional HQ to Ridgefield
Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Wasteful spending of tax dollars is no laughing matter
Broadcast
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Anti-Nazi protesters cause damage, block traffic on Capitol Hill
KPLU FM
Can Data Break The Cycle Of Discipline In Wash. Schools?
How A School’s Attendance Number Hides Big Problems
Why Has The Death Penalty Grown Increasingly Rare?
Seattle-Based Group Health To Be Acquired By The Larger Kaiser Permanente
KUOW FM
The House Designed To Pay Your Energy Bill Actually Works
Web
The Capitol Record
Carbon tax initiative has enough signatures to head to Legislature
Crosscut
Activists want to unionize Uber. Here are the challenges they face.
Those opposing Syrian refugees should heed history’s lessons
Police reform in a city known for police corruption
Publicola
Charter Battle Heats Up in Olympia (Between Democrats) (Clibborn, Pettigrew, Pollet, Sawyer, Springer, Hobbs, Mullet)
DelBene Turns Tables on GOP Planned Parenthood Investigation
Seattle P.I.
Gov. Inslee does Paris, but how’s the political climate on this side of ‘the pond’?
Export-Import Bank: Lawmakers praised for persistence — and more — as Obama signs bill
The Stand
Opinion: Banks must be accountable to civil society