Associated Press
Seattle mayor pushing for free community college program
Steakhouse agrees to pay $1.5M to employees in settlement
Yakima police investigate officer hitting suspect with car
Trump administration halts school lunch salt reduction
Bainbridge Island Review
Opinion: Banning guns in the gallery
The Daily News
Nov. 7 election certified with a 36 percent voter turnout
Parents file civil rights suit over Mint Valley ‘isolation booth’
Lawmakers to preview 2018 legislative session (Takko, Blake)
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Firearms banned from state Senate gallery during sessions (Lovick, Chopp)
WaPo: 38 percent won’t get sizable tax cut under Senate GOP plan
Milbank: Doughnuts to dollars, Trump will ultimately gut CFPB
Editorial: FCC should delay decision because of fake comments
Journal of the San Juan Islands
Blood donations needed during holidays
Locals take U.S. citizenship class at San Juan Island Library
News Tribune (subscription required)
School bus tries to leave lot through picketing crowd as drivers strike in Seattle
New York Times
White House plan: Replace Tillerson with C.I.A. chief
Republican tax plan heads to the Senate floor for debate
Also inside the tax bill: Arctic drilling
Mueller’s prosecutors are said to have interviewed Kushner
Diplomats sound the alarm as they are pushed out in droves
Olympian (subscription required)
The tracks are clear, but there’s no resolution to Olympia’s fracking-related problem
Peninsula Daily News
Clallam commissioners urge state commission to fund Anderson Lake trail
Puget Sound Business Journal
Museum of Flight partners with Japan’s new Aichi Museum of Flight
Redmond Reporter
Microsoft announces massive expansion to Redmond campus
Seattle Times (subscription required)
New charter high school planned for South Seattle
Before camps are cleared, a Seattle team coaxes homeless toward shelter
‘You don’t feel like you’re alone,’ once-homeless veteran says of help from Salvation Army
Washington pot regulators punt to lawmakers on home grows (Sawyer)
Health care costs are at heart of Seattle school-bus strike
Jenny Durkan takes step on free-college promise on 1st full day as Seattle mayor
Editorial: Microsoft expansion is a welcome boost to Puget Sound region
Opinion: With U.S. complacent, Russia sneaked up on us
Spokesman Review
WSU grad students sound off on GOP tax plan
Hundreds turn out for public hearing on proposed Newport silicon smelter
Liquor and Cannabis Board floats guidelines for home-grown recreational pot
WSU aims to lower med school debt to help new doctors
Spokane schools will not ‘ban the box’ on job applications
1,191 cases of suspension or expulsion in Spokane Public Schools in first 60 days
With viral tweet, WSU student raises tens of thousands in donations for St. Jude Children’s Hospital
Facing kidney failure, local man shares story to raise awareness for organ donation
USA Today
Rising seas to swamp thousands of historical sites
New accuser says Sen. Al Franken groped her, CNN reports
House votes to require sexual harassment training
Senate Republicans launch tax reform fight but big hurdles remain
States need help to protect elections from Russian hackers
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
County executive announces ban on non-native salmon pens
Wahkiakum County Eagle
Commissioners, public to meet with legislators (Blake, Takko)
Washington Post
White House readies plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA’s Mike Pompeo
Trump, Senate Republicans blowing through yellow lights on the way to tax overhaul
Trump’s retweets elevate a tiny fringe group of anti-Muslim activists in Britain
Top Democrat ratchets up government shutdown fight over ‘dreamers’
Wenatchee World
NCESD hires migrant health coordinator, safety specialist
Yakima Herald Republic
State regulators offer three options for home grown recreational pot, and none of them will make smokers happy
Broadcast
KING5 TV (NBC)
Former WA first lady on sexual harassment: ‘We’ve reached a tipping point’
Sheriff: Pot growers didn’t know they were breaking law
Homeowners devastated by flooding continue plea for help
UW community rallies for student held at NW Detention Center
KIRO7 TV (CBS)
Legislature receives recommendations for home pot grows
KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Homeowners along eroding Skagit River banks plea for federal help
Kent looks to cut train noise with safety improvements
KNKX FM
Court Outreach Event Aims To Help, Not Arrest Those With Outstanding Warrants
KUOW FM
Judge denies bond for UW student facing deportation
Fake Drugs Are A Major Global Problem, WHO Reports
In The Future We Might Farm Fish on Land Instead Of In The Sea
Multnomah Falls Lodge Reopens For 1st Time Since Eagle Creek Fire
NW Public Radio
Microsoft Announces Big-Time Expansion In Redmond
Washington Energy Council Recommends Denying Vancouver Oil Terminal Project
Q13 TV (FOX)
Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Auburn
As men and money flow into Seattle, so do prostitutes
Web
Civic Skunkworks
No, tax cuts, really, really, really didn’t create growth in Kansas
Crosscut
Opinion: What divides Washingtonians? It’s complicated
MyNorthwest.com
Sen. Phil Fortunato: Senate gun ban is unconstitutional
Mayor Jenny Durkan launches free college tuition plan
Publicola
Durkan Takes the First Step Toward Her Free College Tuition Plan
Seattle P.I.
Connelly: In Seattle, dreaming of a construction-free Christmas
Connelly: Durkan follows through on free college tuition program
Slog
UW student denied release from Tacoma Immigration Detention Center
A new study reports that nearly 40 million workers in the U.S. will be displaced by technology
Council asks Governor Inslee to reject the Vancouver oil terminal
ACLU to state lawmakers: Quit blocking your constituents on social media
Renters are shelling out a bigger share of income for housing than homeowners
Washington State Wire
AG Ferguson files multi-million dollar lawsuit against Uber