Aberdeen Daily World
Mental health workers will strike BHR, agency struggles with financial crisis
Channel project still has locals concerned about oysters
Associated Press
1st Washington pot license goes to man named Green
State waterfall bill heads to governor’s desk
Lawmakers consider bill to bolster state tourism (Morris)
AP Newsbreak: Washington nuke waste tanks flawed?
House passes supplemental budget (Seaquist, Hunter)
Measure excludes pot industry from tax breaks
Seattle police implement new policy for handling mentally ill
Bainbridge Island Review
Hansen’s derelict-vessels bill gets green light from Senate committee (Hansen)
Bellingham Herald
State needs more storage space
Restoring medical marijuana’s legitimacy
Columbian
Immigration advocates stop in Vancouver
Editorial: In Our View: Protect Right to Petition (Reykdal)
Column: Education bill’s unheralded details will need attention (Frockt)
Letter: Letter: Legal status should be prerequisite (Moeller, Stonier, Wylie, Cleveland)
The Daily News
State allows additional day of smelt dipping for Cowlitz River
Everett Herald
Senate considers State Rep. Ortiz-Self’s first bill (Ortiz-Self)
Davis: Legislature needn’t linger
Editorial: Key bills are down to the wire (Hudgins, McAuliffe)
The Islands’ Weekly
Letter: Reliable ferry service rests with legislators in Olympia
Issaquah Press
Legislators talk transportation, schools at Town Hall (Mullet)
Mullet is confident with record as moderate, fiscally conservative Democrat (Mullet)
Journal of the San Juan Islands
Op-Ed: Three-step fix for ferry system (Ranker)
Maple Valley Reporter
Senate honors Tahoma High School We the People team (Mullet)
News Tribune (subscription required)
State treasurer raises doubts over popular House plan to fund school classrooms (Dunshee)
Rally backing $15 hourly wage set for Tacoma
Senate votes against tax breaks for marijuana products, growers (Hargrove)
House passes supplemental budget (Hunter, Seaquist)
Consultant: clean fuels standard might raise gas prices just 6-8 cents – over 20 years
Editorial: Restoring medical marijuana’s legitimacy
Op-ed: Little productivity, but this session will end on time
Olympian (subscription required)
State needs more storage space
State Attorney General’s office alleges Medicaid fraud against Washington woman
House Finance panel OKs 75 percent tax for e-cigs (Carlyle, Reykdal)
SPSCC ordered to crush rare Dodge Viper
State employee sentenced to 33 years for plots to kill wife and co-worker
State treasurer raises doubts over popular House plan to fund school classrooms (Dunshee)
Editorial: Statewide educational goals only a good start (Reykdal)
Rep. Reykdal op-ed: It’s urgent that we replace the GA building (Reykdal)
Letter: There are new costs for legalizing cannabis
Letter: Lawmakers delegate hard decisions to state agencies
Letter: State lottery has not eliminated school levies
Blog: Consultant: clean fuels standard might raise gas prices just 6-8 cents – over 20 years
Blog: Senate votes against tax breaks for marijuana products, growers
Oregonian
Bill giving victims of sex trafficking additional rights heads to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk (Orwall)
Transportation Budget passes in Washington House; Republicans take issue with carpool appropriation (Farrell)
Peninsula Daily News
Sequim planning for all-day kindergarten starting with 2015-2016 school year
Renton Reporter
100+ healthcare enrollment events in March to help uninsured beat the deadline
San Juan Journal
Op-ed (by Ranker) Three-step fix for ferry system | As I See It (Ranker, Morris)
Seattle Times (subscription required)
One architect’s plans for a post-viaduct waterfront
House OKs supplemental budget; Senate negotiations next (Hunter, Seaquist)
School construction bill gets love in House, cool reception in Senate (Dunshee)
Reichert backs bill to ban welfare card use at pot stores
Hobbs Guest Opinion: State about to drain money to help homeless (Hobbs)
Jonathan Martin: Make child care transparent for parents | Times editorial columnist
Seattle Weekly
Suicide-Prevention Bill Clears Hurdle in Olympia, But Medical Professionals Remain Opposed (Orwall)
Skagit Valley Herald
House OKs $400K for Skagit River flood study
Spokesman Review
Washington House passes supplemental budget (Carlyle, Hunter, Dunshee)
Hanford cleanup money cut back in Obama budget plan
JPMorgan grant helps WSU medical program in Spokane
In brief: Bill making Palouse Falls state waterfall heads to Inslee
Editorial: TVW gives East Side valuable eye on Olympia
Tri-City Herald
Our Voice: Senate bill would treat utilities equally under renewable energy rules
Yakima Herald Republic
Homeless programs may lose some state funding next year
‘Open Mike’: Employment numbers improving
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Rising sea level a big concern for Olympia
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Lawmakers fail to pass bill allowing small wine and beer shops to sell liquor (Hurst)
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Lawmakers mulling steep tax hike on E-cigarettes
KPLU FM
Seattle Mulls Resolution Calling For Closer Scrutiny Of Oil Trains
Washington Insurance Commissioner: Premera ‘Guts’ Consumer Protection Bill
KUOW FM
Port Of Portland: We’ll Pass On Crude Oil By Rail—For Now
With Or Without Terminal, Oil Trains Through Vancouver On The Rise
Quixote Village: More Than Just A Place To Sleep
MyNorthwest.com (KIRO FM)
House committee approves 75 percent tax on e-cigarettes (Pollet)
First legal marijuana licenses to be issued in Olympia
Q13 TV (FOX)
Seattle City Council concerned over potential oil train explosions
WEB
Ballard News Tribune
Kohl-Welles appalled by Republicans’ move to keep Washington families out in the cold (Kohl-Welles)
Capitol Record
House passes supplemental budget, includes teacher pay raises (Hunter, Dunshee)
House Finance approves ending four tax breaks to raise money for education (Carlyle)
E-cigarette bill passes in House Finance committee (Pollet)
Democratic senators hold ‘briefing’ on abortion insurance bill (Hobbs)
Mental health commitment bill passes in Senate Ways and Means (Frockt, Hasegawa, Hargrove)
On ‘Legislative Review:’ Taxing e-cigarettes, involuntary commitment and House floor action
Crosscut
Senate goes to brink over Bertha, 520 bridge project overruns (Pedersen, Eide)
Closing 4 tax breaks is key to Democrats’ state budget plan (Reykdal, Carlyle, Pollet, Springer)
The Daily Troll: A gondola for Seattle? Starbucks the banker? Ryan Lewis’ Magnolia mansion. (Sullivan)
HDC Advance
Homeless and trying to learn
Need health care? Time is running out!
Publicola
Jolt: The stick-it-to-Medina provision (Pedersen)
WSDOT: More details on tunnel machine tests, repairs
On other blogs today: Living wages, affordable housing, tax loopholes, and more
Fizz: “What I get paid is not enough to live on.” (Clibborn)
Schmudget
Senate’s Proposed Tax Breaks Would Cost Big In The Long Run
Seattle PI
Pot legal but feds push prosecutions
Blog: How our D.C. reps feel about legal pot
Blog: Updated: Washington’s first marijuana license will go to Green (AP)
Blog: Washington No. 9 in national ‘Well-Being Index’
Slog
Yet Another Subsidy: Cheap Car Insurance
The Stand
The Senate Republicans’ silent slaughter (Jinkins, Reykdal, Sells, Sawyer, Ryu, Riccelli, Dunshee)
Washington State Wire
Democrats State Odd ‘Shadow Hearing’ on Abortion Bill, a Sign of Strange Doings in the Senate – Another Floor Takeover Move in Offing? (Nelson, Sullivan)