Friday, May 25

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Associated Press
Officials: Efforts failing to save US West sagebrush land

Aberdeen Daily World
Council authorizes mayor to make deal for riverfront homeless camp land
Aberdeen finalizes ordinance to make sitting or lying down on sidewalk illegal

Everett Herald (subscription required)
Trump’s Bonneville Power Administration selloff is in doubt
Feeling dissed, Mukilteo teachers plan to pack board meeting
Report shows widespread abuse of immigrant children at border
Muhlstein: In Everett, hateful signs of the times
WaPo: CBO finds higher deficits than Trump administration projects
WaPo: Trump signs law rolling back post-financial crisis banking rules
Editorial: Increase state funding for police academy

Journal of the San Juan Islands
Slow start for San Juan’s summer ferry service
Friday Harbor High students excel at science fair

Kitsap Sun (subscription required)
State Supreme Court finds DNR not responsible for Port Gamble cleanup

News Tribune (subscription required)
Defiant Lakewood moves to block state from releasing dangerous psychiatric patients into city
Editorial: Keep pressure on rail safety deadline

Puget Sound Business Journal
Head tax sends waves down the West Coast as the fight continues in Seattle
Washington Secretary of State warns businesses of letters seeking payment

Renton Reporter
Plans to open King County coal mine later this year move forward

Seattle Times (subscription required)
Amazon closing 130-person Seattle delivery support unit, moving the jobs to Phoenix
Mayor proposes law requiring Seattle owners to lock up guns
Three finalists for Seattle police chief to be named Friday
‘Extreme Risk’: Seattle police have seized 43 guns from people deemed to be a danger under year-old law
Homeless man probably crushed to death after sleeping in recycling container
Construction cost increases create new risks for Northgate-Lynnwood light-rail line
Federal regulators issue new citation against Western State Hospital
Editorial: A missed opportunity for balance at Israel-Palestine forum in Seattle
Opinion: Guest opinion: With the passing of my father, the Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, who will carry the social-justice torch in Seattle?

Seattle Weekly
Plans to open King County coal mine later this year move forward

Spokesman Review
Local government officials may be barred from blocking Twitter critics
Homeless, aging and ill: Respite programs can be a lifesaver, but space is extremely limited

Tri-City Herald
Editorial: Pro-Con: Is it time to repeal the ‘preponderance of evidence’ rule for trying males accused of sex offenses?
Senate’s Hanford cleanup budget rejects Trump’s cuts
Tri-Cities won’t get to improve its shorelines this year
Kennewick just took a big step to make 4,000 kids safer

Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Snap! Taking photos of public records makes sense

Washington Post
As Europe’s data law takes effect, watchdogs go after tech companies

Whidbey News-Times
Letter: Growler expansions have consequences

Yakima Herald Republic
Senate’s Hanford cleanup budget rejects Trump’s cuts
Editorial: South Korean sister city could work if done right

Broadcast

KING5 TV (NBC)
‘Seattle will not be a priority’ for some in business community if head tax remains
Family of WSU QB raises suicide awareness in Seattle

KIRO7 TV (CBS)
Sound Transit’s Lynnwood expansion keeps getting pricier
Mayor Durkan proposes new Seattle gun control legislation

KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Should King Co. taxpayer money be spent on Safeco Field maintenance or homeless services?

KNKX FM
New Forest Service App For Pacific Northwest Is ‘First of Its Kind’
Suicide Risk Prompts Emergency Measures At Western State Hospital

KUOW FM
Fatal gun violence looks different for Seattle kids, depending on where they live
Canada’s pipeline feud could drive up Washington gas prices, tanker traffic
Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
Should the Mariners get tax dollars from King County?

Q13 TV (Fox)
Durkan looks to increase penalties for people who don’t report stolen guns

Web

Crosscut
The NFL missed the whole meaning of protest

Slog
Trump’s Anti-Choice Title X Rule Could Affect 80,000 Women in Washington
Let Farmers Sell Their Own Pot

Thursday, May 24

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Associated Press
Amazon, Starbucks pledge money to repeal Seattle head tax
Taking on the system: ‘Dreamers’ are getting law degrees
Trump eager to sign bill rolling back Dodd-Frank regulations
Trump cancels summit, citing ‘open hostility’ by North Korea

Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
Federal agency to hold 2-day hearing on fatal DuPont Amtrak derailment
Editorial reprint: Special Washington legislative session for school safety? No thanks

Everett Herald (subscription required)
State will buy back bump stocks before they become illegal
More parents oppose changes to Everett school boundaries
Bloomberg: Survey: Bee death increase may be tied to climate change
Commentary: If a worker pays no dues, why get union benefits?

The Inlander
Why a tribal treaty rights case in Washington will likely end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

Journal of the San Juan Islands
Bald Eagle and fox battle, midair, on San Juan Island | Update | Photos
Nonprofit provides food for students over the weekend
Thinking ahead about energy sources | Letter

Kirkland Reporter
Young environmentalists urge plastic straw ban

News Tribune (subscription required)
Border patrol agents threatened migrant children with death, sexual abuse, ACLU says
Federal agency to hold 2-day hearing on fatal DuPont Amtrak derailment
Editorial: Pierce County leaders put up a good show for jobs

Peninsula Daily News
Peninsula entities aim for alternate fuel usage

Puget Sound Business Journal
States are pushing to keep federal regulation out of sports gambling
New tax laws will hit companies that send workers overseas

Seattle Times (subscription required)
WaPo: Trump Twitter ruling: What a Washington woman did to get blocked by the president
UW Medical Center patient diagnosed with Legionnaires disease while receiving treatment
FYI Guy: 114,000 more people: Seattle now decade’s fastest-growing big city in all of U.S.
Editorial: Hone protest management to keep Seattle moving
Opinion: Why can’t gun apologists just say they’re wrong?

Spokesman Review
NC students teach survival and watching for signs of a school shooter
Spokane’s first black firefighter dealt with racist harassment for years on the force
Seattle’s head tax is bad for Washington business, panelists say
Colvilles say tribes are being excluded from Columbia River Treaty negotiations

Tri-City Herald
New Hanford cleanup deadlines proposed. Critics call the delay risky

Washington Post
‘Astounding ignorance of the law’: Civil rights groups slam DeVos for saying schools can report undocumented students

Wenatchee World
Public hearing set for cargo container moratorium

Yakima Herald Republic
Old, sick, and homeless: A few providers try and keep senior citizens from dying in the streets
Growing popularity of shed hunting brings problems that led to restrictions in other states
Editorial: Senate right to keep up pressure on net neutrality

Broadcast

KING5 TV (NBC)
WA senator takes shot at Seattle with ‘head tax credit’ bill
Seattle cemeteries hire guards after homeless camp complaints
Phoenix using head tax to recruit Seattle companies

KIRO7 TV (CBS)
Scientists discover opioids in some Puget Sound mussels

KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Armed guards watch over North Seattle cemetery after vandalism, homeless complaints
Aberdeen imposes new restrictions on begging, lying on sidewalks
Teachers make 24 percent less than the average American worker, report says

KNKX FM
Northwest Farmers Fret Over Farm Bill, Crop Insurance

KUOW FM
Seattle won’t ding homeless agencies that don’t make the grade — for now
A mosque and a land trust team up to save Tukwila’s minority businesses
A Warming Planet Could Turn Streams Into Carbon Polluters: Study
Would you foster a child? One parent: ‘It’s the best thing I’ve ever done’
Relaxed mussels? Opioids found in Puget Sound shellfish hint at crisis

NW Public Radio
Northwest Farmers Fret Over Farm Bill, Crop Insurance
Canada And U.S. To Open Renegotiations Of Columbia River Treaty
Paradise Lost? Cell Service Coming To Mount Rainier, Despite Pleas To Protect Solitude
New Hope To Stop Relentless Erosion Of Washington’s ‘Washaway Beach’ (Blake)

Q13 TV (Fox)
Amazon, Starbucks and 50+ businesses pledge money to repeal Seattle head tax

Web

Crosscut
Immigrant youth, refugees find support at this Seattle school
Honk if you hate Seattle’s new traffic culture

Edmonds Beacon
ECA to have ceremony for completed roof (Ortiz-Self, Peterson, Liias)

My Edmonds News
June 7 community meeting to discuss City of Edmonds Creative District application

Seattle P.I.
Connelly: Larsen breaks with fellow Dems, backs partial Dodd-Frank rollback
Connelly: Can a new SDOT director make a disaster start to deliver?
Connelly: Crack down on drug companies that wink at opioid abuses — 39 AGs

Shoreline Area News
Shoreline Schools awarded $55K grant for Computer Science Education

Slog
We Can Have Nicer Things: How Seattle Can Still Get Transit Right
Slog AM: Seattle Is The Fastest Growing City Of The Decade, Phoenix Poaches Business After Head Tax, A Sexier Space Needle
Lawsuit Claims Rent-Bidding Moratorium Violates Landlords’ Free Speech Rights

Wednesday, May 23

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Associated Press
In the addiction battle, is forced rehab the solution?
Gallery: Facelift of Seattle’s Space Needle nears completion
Lawsuit seeks to change how Army Corps regulates shorelines

Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
Hundreds of wells statewide to be tested for chemicals contained in firefighting foam

Bothell Reporter
Puget Sound residents worried about Kachess Lake plan

The Daily News
County, Millennium appeal state board’s ruling on coal terminal permits
Editorial: New action, not old promises, needed at Western State (Via Seattle Times)
Editorial: Give charters schools chance to succeed (Via Tacoma News Tribune, Walla Walla Union Bulletin)

Everett Herald (subscription required)
Work begins on new Stanwood high school
Both sides of gun debate agree on one thing
Congress nears dismantling of post-crisis bank rules
House GOP seeks last-ditch immigration pact amid rebellion
Milbank: The Banana States of America

Kirkland Reporter
Puget Sound residents worried about Kachess Lake plan

News Tribune (subscription required)
Signature-gatherers sue Puyallup, saying city’s ban near fairgrounds restricts free speech
We’re not Seattle, Pierce County leaders tell companies upset with head tax
Hundreds of wells statewide to be tested for chemicals contained in firefighting foam
Editorial: Special Washington legislative session for school safety? No thanks

New York Times
Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
Getting a Flood of G.D.P.R-Related Privacy Policy Updates? Read Them.
Congress Approves Bill Giving Patients a ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Drugs

Olympian (subscription required)
Editorial: Tougher limits (still) needed for gun ownership

Peninsula Daily News
Signs of change: Port Angeles woman tells of getting off drugs
Cost rises for Port of Port Angeles stormwater treatment facility construction
PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide

Puget Sound Business Journal
Taking aim at Seattle head tax, Pierce County rolls out $275 per job incentive
US has more than 5,600 banks. Consolidation is coming
Low-paid women get Hollywood money to file harassment suits
How can the U.S. food industry protect itself from China’s new tariffs?
Why Trump’s intense focus on the trade deficit could cost the economy in the long run

Seattle Times (subscription required)
Cost estimate hits $570 million for Seattle sewage tunnel
Alaska Air slows growth plans, reroutes some planes to balance spending and competitive pressures
Constantine wants to leverage conservation fund to buy 65,000 acres of ‘last best places’
‘Turn out the lights’: Message from 1971 Seattle billboard echoed in head-tax debate
One person bit by rabid bat on UW campus; King County health officials issue warning
WaPo: The Trump administration’s bogus spin that it obtained $2 billion for ‘school safety’
Westneat: GOP is right: It’s past time for a special session on school shootings
Krugman: What’s the matter with Europe?
Editorial: Gun owners must lock up and unload at home

Seattle Weekly
The Last Stop Before Homelessness (Macri)

Spokesman Review
Ranchers wrangle a living history out of Eastern Washington scablands
Spokane residents could save up to $500 on utility bill for reducing yard turf
Chinese middle class could be boon for Washington ranchers

Tri-City Herald
Our Voice: Banning motorized watercraft near Richland park a good idea

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Unifying for Democracy (Nelson)

Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Making our schools safer will take time

Wenatchee World
Flones announces decision to step down next year

Yakima Herald Republic
Editorial: Fire season is upon us, requiring due caution and care

Broadcast

KING5 TV (NBC)
‘Surviving in Seattle:’ Family struggles to keep up with rising cost of living
The fight to stop megafires in Washington
Company in fatal construction fall had previous safety violations
Rabid bat bites 1 person near Husky Stadium, several others exposed

KIRO7 TV (CBS)
Illegal ivory products seized at Sea-Tac Airport

KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Sewer tunnel project to protect Lake Union already over budget before it begins
Pierce County unveils $275 tax credit incentive to counter Seattle’s big business tax
State investigating worker’s deadly fall at Sound Transit East Link construction site

KNKX FM
New Hope To Stop—Or Greatly Slow—Seemingly Unstoppable Shoreline Erosion  (Blake)
UW ‘Designing For Evil’ Class Teaches How To Make Technology For The Greater Good
Convicted Former Washington State Auditor Rejected Plea Deals Before Second Trial

KUOW FM
Seattle’s ship canal project will cost $150 million more than expected
A Woman Has Been Named As NYSE President. It Only Took 226 Years

NW Public Radio
Convicted Former Washington State Auditor Rejected Plea Deals Before Second Trial

Q13 TV (Fox)
Tacoma, Pierce County leaders try to entice Seattle businesses with tax credits
State looking at tolling plans for new Highway 99 tunnel
States with the largest teacher pay gap; Washington state is No. 6

Web

Seattle P.I.
Bellingham immigrant activist aims to prove ICE targeted speech
One person bit by rabid bat on UW campus, others likely exposed

West Seattle Blog
Dr. Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap named next President of South Seattle College

Tuesday, May 22

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Associated Press
Alabama sues over undocumented residents in Census counts
California appeals to defend law allowing life-ending drugs
Hanford contractor earns $10M despite contamination spread
ACLU: Amazon shouldn’t sell face-recognition tech to police

Aberdeen Daily World
Council to make final decision on “lying down ordinance”
Free mental health training offered for anyone working with teens
Letter: We must take positive action

Bainbridge Island Review
Opinion: Eyman’s running on faith, and his own money | The Petri Dish

Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
Wolverines ‘starting to claw their way back to the south Cascades’ and the babies are pretty cute
State hopes this will take politics out of test on cougar who killed cyclist
Where the land meets the sea, they want to protect ‘the Goldilocks zone’

Bothell Reporter
It’s time to make Western Washington coal-free | Guest Column

The Daily News
Following Texas shooting, Rep. Walsh proposes letting K-12 staff concealed carry

News Tribune (subscription required)
Now will you come to Tacoma? New tax credit takes aim at Seattle’s new head tax

Puget Sound Business Journal
Leaders and strategy of Seattle head tax repeal effort come into focus
State economist calls Seattle head tax ‘a gamble,’ warns it could result in layoffs

Seattle Times (subscription required)
ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial-recognition tools to governments
Worker dies in fall at Sound Transit light-rail construction site in Bellevue
Seattle takes first steps toward assessing nearby property owners for waterfront project
‘She was fearless’: DeCharlene Williams, pillar of Seattle’s Central Area, dies at 75
WaPo: Who is FBI source behind Trump complaint over role in Russia investigation?
Seattle begins search for new transportation director
Editorial: Reject back-channel attempt to defund Planned Parenthood
Opinion: Holocaust education: ‘I want my students to get the facts’

Spokesman Review
Report finds harassment, bullying by 5 Spokane firefighters; accused push back on allegations
Paul Allen donates $1M to Washington gun initiative

Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Give charter schools chance to succeed

Yakima Herald Republic
Attorney General vows to fight for ‘dreamers’

Broadcast

KING5 TV (NBC)
Construction worker dies after fall at Bellevue light rail site
Pierce Co. takes dig at Seattle with $275 job-creation credit
Paul Allen, investors raise $2 million for Washington gun safety initiative

KIRO7 TV (CBS)
Opioid epidemic is causing foster care crisis
Washington state begins process of testing thousands of rape kits (Orwall)

KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Thieves can easily buy and use your stolen credit card info without you even knowing
Pierce County tries to capitalize on Seattle’s big business tax backlash
19 arrested for trespassing inside State Capitol Rotunda

KNKX FM
At Western State Hospital, A Waitlist To Get In And A Waitlist To Get Out
Inside The ‘Nightmare’ Of Finding Housing When You’re Disabled
Seattle City Light Expands Energy-Efficieny Program To Pay Building Owners For Their Investments
Meet The Companies Testing Self-Driving Vehicles In The Pacific Northwest
Emergency Managers Move Into ‘Defense Mode’ As Flood Outlook Changes
How Schools Across The Country Are Working To Detect Threats Made On Social Media

KUOW FM
‘We live in a jewel of a place that comes with wild risks’
Education Department Launches ‘Top-To-Bottom’ Review Of Teachers’ Grant Program

NW Public Radio
Teen Who Caused Eagle Creek Fire In Columbia gorge Ordered To Pay $36 Million
Eightmile Lake Dam Above Leavenworth Gets New Spillway, Being Monitored

Q13 TV (Fox)
Take that, Seattle: Pierce County offering $275-per-new-job incentive to businesses
A week after controversial head tax passes, Seattle City Council members propose property tax increase
Students, parents, politicians look for answers to problem of school shootings (Frockt)
The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as other major industrialized nations combined
19 Poor People’s Campaign demonstrators arrested for refusing orders to leave Capitol Rotunda

Web

Crosscut
‘Cancer House’? The mysterious case of Seattle Fire Station 31

Slog
Supreme Court Issues “Disaster” Ruling for Workers — What Can Washington Do About It?

Monday, May 21

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Associated Press
Humpback whale washes ashore at Ocean Shores
US arrest, raids in Seattle pot probe with China ties
Divided Supreme Court rules for businesses over workers
Supreme Court sends land dispute back to Wash. top court

Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
A special legislative session to improve school safety? A top Republican says yes (Frockt)
State sees need to reduce elk damage in the Skagit Valley
People living in boats with lack of affordable housing

Columbian
In Our View: Priorities Straight  (Cleveland, Stonier, Wylie)
In Our View: Head Tax not Saint, Sinner
In Our View: Remain Wary on Tolls

The Daily News
Editorial: Setting priorities straight (Stonier, Wylie, Cleveland via the Columbian)

Everett Herald (subscription required)
Each day, school leaders eye students for potential threats
Make money from pot? Then forget about an SBA-backed loan
‘We’re on schedule,’ says developer of Paine Field air terminal
Supreme Court says employers can bar worker class actions
McCusker: High court did us no favors with sports gambling ruling
Editorial: Find better funding source for charter schools

Journal of the San Juan Islands
Friday Harbor Elementary Students learn to grow beans
Improvements to local oil spill response
Enrollment opens at Skagit College
San Juan County Land Bank purchases Lopez Hill from state

Peninsula Daily News
EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings (Tharinger, Chapman, Van De Wege)
Jefferson Healthcare given $1 million to provide low-income dental care (Tharinger, Chapman, Van De Wege)

News Tribune (subscription required)
Trump works to cut high-skilled visas in NAFTA deal
Transgender veteran sues state, alleging sex discrimination in hiring
A special legislative session to improve school safety? A top Republican says yes (Frockt)
Opinion: Please, let’s never get numb to school carnage
Editorial: Stop bullies, in memory of Lakewood girl
Editorial: To unthaw cold cases like Jennifer Bastian’s, collect more DNA (Orwall)

Olympian (subscription required)
Appeal challenging Olympia’s ‘missing middle’ housing plan dismissed
Aberdeen to vote this week on ordinance to prohibit sitting and lying down in downtown
Editorial: State not done fixing K-12 school funding

Puget Sound Business Journal
Supreme Court upholds workplace arbitration contracts
Banks adopt military-style tactics to fight cybercrime

Seattle Times (subscription required)
$12 million a mile: Here’s how bike-lane costs shot sky high in Seattle
Two attacked by cougar identified; wildlife officials say predator was ‘emaciated’
State to test drinking-water sites for PFAS contamination linked to firefighting foam
Lakewood community college a finalist for $1 million prize for excellence
Spokesman-Review: Spokane leaders don’t want head tax for homeless services
Black students’ four-hour sit-in in 1968 led to big UW changes
Washington state’s new special education chief looks to improve low rates for graduation and attending college
Editorial: New action, not old promises, needed at Western State
Opinion: Dont let Dreamers become collateral in Trump’s war of words with MS-13

Spokesman Review
Niel Ritchie: Net neutrality is vital – but so is rural broadband
Input sought on new driver’s license language

USA Today
Supreme Court backs employers over workers in first of two major labor cases

Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Expanding private health care for veterans has merit

Washington Post
Amid ethics scrutiny, EPA’s Pruitt also finds his regulatory rollbacks hitting bumps
‘Just pure frustration’: How months of inaction led 20 Republicans to take a stand on immigration

Whidbey News-Times
Oak Harbor Council creates taxing district to fund roadwork
Prosecutor declines to charge Langley police chief with crime
Registration open for returning students at SVC

Yakima Herald Republic
Yakima officials apply for grants to create ‘safe routes’ for students
Editorial: Next step: permanent shelter for homeless
Bloomberg column: Deportations drop under Trump compared to Obama; here’s why

Broadcast

KING5 TV (NBC)
Rare cougar attack a ‘mystery,’ even for experts

KOMO4 TV (ABC)
Crowd gathers for open-carry rally in Seattle

KNKX FM
Inside The ‘Nightmare’ Of Finding Housing When You’re Disabled
Despite Floods, Officials Say Municipal Drinking Water In Okanogan Valley Still Safe
Hope And Trepidation Mix As Bellevue Mosque Is Rebuilt
Commercial Solar Arrays On Farmland Cropping Up Bountifully—And Stirring Opposition
Gig Harbor Resists Growth, Prompting Warning From State

KUOW FM
What the Seattle City Council learned just two weeks before the head tax vote
What Does Trump’s Proposal To Cut Planned Parenthood Funds Mean?

NW Public Radio
Tri-Cities Nuclear Reactor Columbia Generating Station Shuts Down In Unplanned Event
Emergency Managers In ‘Defense Mode’ As Okanogan Flood Outlook Changes To Lower Level

Q13 TV (Fox)
The Cascade foothills is cougar country, but deadly attacks are rare
Child pricked by dirty needle at Everett park
Flooding continues in Eastern Washington a week+ after record snowmelt

Web

Crosscut
Opponents swiftly raise $300K to overturn business tax
Opinion: If it’s a homeless emergency, why don’t we provide shelter?

Slog
Business Leaders Launch Drive For a Head Tax Repeal
The Head Tax According to Amazon Employees
Analysis of Driver Pay Argues It’s Time to Stop Talking About Uber as the Future of Work
Guest Editorial: We Need Safe Consumption Sites. Take it From Someone in the Music Industry.