Associated Press
Lawmakers: 2016 will be another year of education focus (Chopp, Sullivan, Rolfes)
Washington lawmakers propose new charter school fix (Pettigrew, Billig)
Seattle tunnel machine begins drilling after 2-year break
Washington to require transparency on aerospace tax breaks
Washington state police free 12 women, seize sex trade site
Hazel Dell pot shop opens despite moratorium in Clark County
Applications for jobless aid fell last week
Washington lawmakers try to hike legal smoking age to 21
Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
Alcoa to close one U.S. smelter, idle another
Capital Press
Agriculture committee chairmen thinking about manure and wildfires (Blake)
Columbian
In Our View: Improve Access For Testimony
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Lawmakers: 2016 will be another year of education focus (Chopp, Sullivan, Rolfes)
DSHS chief blames lawmakers for state mental-health logjam
Inslee vows accountability in inmate early-release glitch (Chopp)
McCusker: Lowering standards undermines education
Editorial: County lawmakers, officials find a unified voice (Liias, Dunshee, Kagi, Sells, Chase)
News Tribune (subscription required)
State Attorney General lambastes proposed fine over 911 outage
Former Lakewood Police Chief Larry Saunders spent life helping others
Olympian (subscription required)
Olympia mom starts LGBT support group for military families
Editorial: Obama takes needed steps on gun safety
Redmond Reporter
Washington Department of Ecology releases draft rule to cap carbon pollution
More than $27 million in bill-payment assistance available for qualified, low-income Puget Sound Energy customers
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Offenders building new lives after early release are yanked back into custody due to state’s mistake
Inslee: Failure to act on prison errors was ‘mind-boggling’
Dozen arrested as large prostitution ring involving websites, Bellevue brothels shut down
Bertha making progress, tunnels 73 feet since repairs
Another bill proposed to save charter schools in Washington (Pettigrew, Billig)
Editorial: Lawmakers and other schools should emulate Foster High School’s successes
Opinion: Don’t rob funding for ‘next generation’ 911 system
Spokesman Review
Some CenturyLink customers still without service six weeks after windstorm
Springdale school district gets $2.1 million for charter schools
Gonzaga professor Tod Marshall named Washington’s poet laureate
Vancouver Business Journal
New year brings new laws for business owners
The Wenatchee World (Subscription required)
Private donors, state grants may partner for Loop Trail land buy
Yakima Herald Republic
Offenders building new lives after early release are yanked back into custody due to state’s mistake
Washington to require transparency on aerospace tax breaks
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KING 5 TV (NBC)
Lawmakers: 2016 will be another year of education focus (Sullivan, Rolfes)
12 women rescued in Puget Sound human trafficking bust
Advocates praise ‘unprecedented’ sex trafficking arrests
Gov. Inslee waits to hold employees responsible for DOC mistake
Bertha breaks through access pit wall
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Lawmaker touched by murder skeptical of governor’s gun safety ordersLawmakers plan hearing on early release scandal (Chopp)
KPLU FM
‘Toothpaste Back Into The Tube’: Opponents Doubt Efforts To Save Wash. Charter Schools Will Work
As Legislature Reconvenes, Green Groups Say Protecting Hard-Fought Wins A Top Priority
Schools, Not Pot, Are Priority As Washington Legislature Reconvenes (Sullivan)
KUOW FM
The Irony Of Moving To ‘Atomic City’ After Internment
Bertha Is On The Move Again
Washington State’s New Poet Laureate Wants To Build Bridges
Let’s Cut Gun Deaths Like We Did Road Deaths, Inslee Says
MyNorthwest.com (KIRO FM)
King County shuts down sex slavery ring selling indebted South Korean women
NW Public Radio
Washington Inmate Locked Back Up After Early Release Given Medical Furlough
Q13 TV (FOX)
Washington Legislature opens 2016 session on Monday: School funding tops agenda
12 women freed, 14 people arrested in sex-trafficking raid in Seattle area
WEB
Capitol Record
Legislative leaders offer preview of upcoming session (Chopp, Nelson)
Crosscut
Kindergarten program for special needs children may be saved
Bertha rides again – but for how long?
It’s time to get passionate about gun control
Seattle P.I.
Bertha digs her way forward, slowly but surely
Alleged prostitution website busted, 12 trafficked women freed
New faces, new jobs in Legislature, County Courthouse and City… (Carlyle, Frame, Tarleton)