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Thursday, October 8
Associated Press
Truant label more likely to go to poor, minority students
State says Seattle tunnel delays could cost $78 million
Washington state asks China to consider loaning pandas
Glitches as new community college computer system rolled out
Inslee to announce new approach to updating water quality
Bainbridge Island Review
Senate’s school funding forum is this Thursday in Bremerton (Rolfes, Hargrove)
Opinion: The Scandalous Suppression of Gun Violence Research
Columbian
No severance for many as Red Lion Hotel closes
$40,000 raised to buy, train new police dog
The Daily News
A parched peninsula has cranberry growers worried
U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposes to downlist Columbian white-tailed deer to threatened
Editorial: State Senate’s roadshow on education can’t ignore money (Dunshee)
News Tribune (subscription required)
Report: Washington 7th in math scores, 40th in high-school graduation
State lawmakers to China: Send pandas to Washington state (Hunt)
Op-Ed: Matt Driscoll: Must we have 10 more years of immigrant detention on the Tideflats?
Seattle Times (subscription required)
State says idled Bertha may add $78M to its cost for tunnel
Inslee asks for federal wildfire aid
Have ideas about school funding? You talk, senators say they’ll listen
Governor takes another swing at state standards for water quality
Editorial: Major League Baseball has a race problem
Op-Ed: Perils of a climate skeptic for president
Op-Ed: Shaping a low-carbon future for Washington includes putting a price on carbon
Seattle Weekly
The ACLU Says Benton County is Running a Modern Day Debtor’s Prison
Spokesman Review
Community Colleges of Spokane caught in computer system snarl
SCC lands $2 million grant to help students succeed in school
Riverkeeper sues over Hangman Creek cleanup
Our View: Broaden open meetings law
Tri-City Herald
Decades-long Hanford downwinder lawsuit settles
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Bill Gates calls for focus on teacher quality
What is Seattle doing to address homelessness?
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Teacher who tackled student with gun to be honored by governor
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Computer glitch causing financial aid crisis at Tacoma college
KUOW FM
Report: Poor, Minority Students In Washington More Likely To Be Labeled Truants
Smog Levels May Be Low In The Northwest But The Region Is Not In The Clear
NW Public Radio
ACLU Sues Benton County, Wash., For Operating ‘Modern-Day Debtors Prison’
Report: Poor, Minority Students In Washington More Likely To Be Labeled Truants
WEB
Crosscut
Harry Belafonte on activism, unrest and the importance of making people squirm
Seattle P.I.
Cantwell: Public lands good for the body, the soul and the economy
Christianity as American’s official religion? Forty-four percent of Republicans say yes
The Stand
Teamsters reach tentative deal for Sysco drivers, warehouse workers
Op-Ed: Hard-earned trust for proposed port should pay off
Wednesday, October 7
Associated Press
State ferries selling 9 generators it bought but never used
Groups form alliance to tackle climate change by initiative
ACLU lawsuit: County jails people who can’t pay court fines
Bothell Reporter
Area transit leaders announce 700 units of affordable workforce housing in King County (Farrell)
Columbian
Camden: Inslee all wet when it comes to ‘Twilight’ knowledge
Huts give homeless new hope in Vancouver
Firm’s HIV drug could be ‘game-changer’
Day care big burden for minimum-wage workers
News Tribune (subscription required)
National education expert speaks Tuesday at Chief Leschi Schools
Editorial: Too much evidence locked away in untested rape kits
Olympian (subscription required)
Volunteers needed to evaluate grants for parks, trails, habitat
Op-Ed by Gov. Jay Inslee: Record high numbers of people insured in Washington
Puget Sound Business Journal
SEC alleges Dargey misappropriated $46 million in investor funds for Belltown tower
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Probe of 777 engine’s explosive failure pinpoints its origin
Are there pesticides in your pot? New rules make it easier to find out
Rules enforced, lives saved
Second group plans state initiative on climate change
UW ranks 11th among global universities
Seattle schools have one of nation’s largest equity gaps, new study says
Westneat: A socialist proves democracy at work in Seattle
Op-Ed: State lawmakers must restore charter-school funding
Op-Ed: State erred in how it funded charter schools
Editorial: Voters get the last word on tax increases
Seattle Weekly
Oregon’s Legal Marijuana Scene Already Sounds Cooler Than Ours
Cliff Mass Knows Climate Change Is Real, So Why Are Activists and Scientists So Mad at Him?
Spokesman Review
Cheatgrass foe found; who doesn’t believe in miracles?
Editorial: More no-smoking policies would benefit businesses, community
Tri-City Herald
ACLU sues Benton County over jail sentences for unpaid court fees
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
State testing, sex education among topics discussed at school board public forum
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
WSDOT call center wait times up with I-405 tolling
Lawmakers on education funding ‘listening tour’ (Rolfes)
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Congressional cut shuts down park program
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Transgender JBLM officer fears she’ll be discharged
MyNorthwest.com (KIRO FM)
Opinion: Washington State Ferries is wasting our money
WEB
Crosscut
Op-Ed: Under King Knute, the rich and the jackasses would be taxed
Seattle P.I.
WSU regent launches drive to rebuild torched Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman
LGBTQ elderly in King County: A population that’s growing, with health problems and needs support
The Stand
Op-Ed: A million Washingtonians aren’t registered to vote. Why?
Tuesday, October 6
Associated Press
Southwest Washington pot shops remain optimistic about sales
Washington lawmakers take education reform ideas on the road, but plan lacks funding sources (Dunshee, Rolfes)
In writings, Oregon gunman ranted about others being crazy
Groups form alliance to tackle climate change by initiative
Yahoo to double size of data center in central Washington
Columbian
The Columbian celebrates 125th anniversary
Vancouver to receive $790,000 in pot excise taxes
The Daily News
Takko Democrats’ top pick for Senate seat
Bomb threat evacuates Winlock High
Kelso School Board approves new teacher contract
Editorial: Conservation allowed to die
Everett Herald (subscription required)
State audit of city finds more problems at Arlington airport
News Tribune (subscription required)
State AG wins case against Pierce County firm that provided bogus training to care workers
Editorial: Protection orders could stop some mass murders
Op-Ed: Matt Driscoll: MLKHDA launches ‘Locks & Socks’ from the biggest empty homeless shelter in the city
Peninsula Daily News
Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund allowed to expire; state’s congressional delegation urges action on key funding for national outdoors areas
Puget Sound Business Journal
More bad economic news: U.S exports fall to lowest level in 3 years
Here’s why Washington should be watching Oregon’s marijuana sales closely
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Death of Evergreen senior, other player injuries renew football-safety debate
Many homeowners stuck owing more than their houses are worth
Report: Fantasy-sports employees using inside information on outside bets
State says I-405 travel times are steady, but collisions are up
A plan to give 5,000 dropouts a second chance
City cracks down on rent hikes used to avoid relocation payments
Heirs of Eyman donor have ‘great concern’ about use of funds
Editorial: Creating opportunities for people with disabilities
Op-Ed: Twisted social media and mass murder
Seattle Weekly
One Way to Keep Dirty Homeless People Out of Ballard (Carlyle)
Spokesman Review
Spokane Regional Health District urges companies to ban smoking, hire nonsmokers
Fall chinook fishing continues hot in Hanford Reach
Editorial: Congress lets worthwhile Land and Water Conservation Fund expire
West Seattle Herald
UPDATE- Evergreen football player dies following game injury
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
IRC: 3,000 Syrian refugees expected in Seattle in next year
Inslee, lawmakers ask voters to support ban on conversion therapy (Liias)
Motorcyclists complain Good to Go passes fail on I-405
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Evergreen HS football player dies after being injured during game
KPLU FM
Are There Silver Linings To Climate Change In The Pacific Northwest?
Q13 TV (FOX)
Evergreen High School football player dies after game injury; classmates grieve
Southwest Washington pot shops remain optimistic about sales
WEB
Capitol Record (TVW)
On TVW this week: GET committee, education finance listening tour
Crosscut
Can we really ‘restore’ the Duwamish, Seattle’s industrial river?
Police reform and “brutally honest” data: A chat with Seattle PD’s new tech chief
Seattle P.I.
City Council closes loophole to protect tenants
Gates Foundation offers employees 52 weeks’ paid parental leave, and time off without limit
Montreal will temporarily copy Victoria’s example and dump raw sewage into international waterway
The Stand
Northwest Hospital employees picket for better care Wednesday
Sysco workers unanimously authorize strike
Monday, October 5
Associated Press
Audit: State overpaid private contractor to fight 2014 fire
Oregon shooter showed little sympathy in calculated killings
Seattle plans expansion of bike share network
VA audit: Seattle incorrectly told vets they’d lose benefits
United States, 11 Pacific Rim countries reach trade deal
Why are raises elusive with record U.S. job openings?
Abortion, race, birth control top high court agenda
Washington lawmakers take education reform ideas on the road (Dunshee, Rolfes)
Aberdeen Daily World
First oil hearing garners large opposition
Bainbridge Island Review
Q&A with Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-6th District
Central Kitsap Reporter
‘Women in STEM’ town hall set for Oct. 5
PSNS & IMF to conduct oil spill exercise
Columbian
Thousands of untested rape kits sit for lack of funding (Orwall)
Determined Pike still reaching across river (Wylie)
Clark County may limit entry to Public Service Center
The Daily News
Four Washington teacher strikes happened this year. Why? (Reykdal)
Mass shootings grab headlines, but others go under radar
Editorial: Enough is enough
Enumclaw Courier Herald
King County Council approves funding for untested rape kits (Orwall)
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Tulalip Tribes give nonprofits $5.8M in ‘Raising Hands’ initiative
Lawmakers seek input on education funding in Everett on Tuesday
Complaints say that commerce officials helped PUD score a grant
Already, EvCC to expand Advanced Manufacturing center
Audit: City of Snohomish over-claimed $125K for roundabout costs
Students impressed by career opportunities at Manufacturing Day
Public Disclosure Commission calls Eyman’s violations serious
$1M proposed to fight homelessness, crime in Everett
Washington Post: Alabama closes driver’s license offices in black areas
Washington Post guest commentary: Where Common Core helps and hinders students with writing
Guest commentary: This is what Legislature needs to hear on school funding
Guest commentary: Medicaid’s nursing home wage rates unfairly based on location
Other Voices (Sacramento Bee): College shooting achingly familiar
Editorial: One media blame too far (Vaccination reporting)
Editorial: More than thoughts, prayers (Gun violence)
News Tribune (subscription required)
Audit finds Washington state overpaid private firefighters in 2014 contract
Olympia’s Freedom Foundation has unions in its sights
University Place residents mixed about saving recreation with new taxes
Long road ahead to deal with thousands of untested rape kits in Washington (Orwall)
Group sues Tacoma police over Stingray agreement
Op-Ed: Matt Driscoll: Will the Planning Commission’s affordable housing proposals go far enough?
Olympian (subscription required)
Proposed care center targets mental illness and more in downtown Olympia
Long road ahead to deal with thousands of untested rape kits in Washington (Orwall)
Olympia students trained on how to survive a school shooting
Editorial: Another mass shooting on campus
Puget Sound Business Journal
Biggest trade deal since NAFTA reached; what TPP means for business
Approved: A housing program that both developers and Kshama Sawant favor
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Washington State Ferries hosts its first-ever floating Seahawks pep rally
A spike in King County foreign-born populations
Statisticians wanted: The lesser-known, but also hot tech field
Bid to unionize Uber, Lyft advances
Editorial: A valuable tool to build low-income housing: Mandatory inclusionary zoning
Editorial: Seattle can help lead on preventing gun violence
Westneat: Our state’s greatest gift to the nation just got canceled
Spokesman Review
State uses new paving technique to fill wheel ruts
Coroner: Inquest in Pasco police shooting likely delayed to next year
Viral disease killing hundreds of deer in the region
Spin Control: Inslee not up-to-speed on ‘Twilight’ setting
Sunday Spin3: Education hearing coming
Editorial: I-732 promises politics-neutral carbon tax solution for Washington
Sharon Brown and Mike Padden: Videoconferencing the next step in Washington’s participatory democracy
Tri-City Herald
Proposed trail closure an issue in Lathim, Dye legislative race
West Seattle Herald
Seattle Public Schools releases summary of tentative agreement with Seattle Education Association
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Fantasy football is illegal in Washington state
Roseburg works to answer the ‘Why?’
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
State fines over education funding reach $5.2 million; money not paid (Sullivan)
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Court vacates woman’s sentence in lottery theft case
KPLU FM
Washington Aerospace Summit Will Focus On Issues Such As Export-Import Bank Renewal
NW Public Radio
Roseburg Looks For Answers In Wake Of Mass Shooting
WEB
Crosscut
Is this Seattle’s next $100 million tax levy?
Coon Lake: Park Service under pressure to change racist name (Jayapal)
Seattle P.I.
Is city low-balling cost of record $930 million levy to homeowners?
The Stand
Support for-hire drivers’ rights in Seattle
Waterland Blog
Des Moines Council to hire outside lawyer to study location of Woodmont facility (Orwall)
Friday, October 2
Associated Press
Angry and frustrated, Obama condemns latest mass shooting in U.S.
‘We began to run’: Students describe horror of shooting
US hiring slowed in September as global economy weakened
Strong support for guns in town shocked by college shooting
Sheriff: Teens post violent threats to Port Orchard school
Police: Student arrested for bringing gun to Olympia high school
Poll of Seattle residents finds fewer disapprove of police
Sheriff in Oregon shooting investigation is vocal opponent of state, federal gun control legislation
Bainbridge Island Review
Blood-donor network issues appeal in wake of Oregon college shooting
Central Kitsap Reporter
Wild chinook among fish studied at seine
Letter: McCleary, strikes and school bonds
The Daily News
Multiple deaths reported at Umpqua college shooting
Editorial: Divest, but don’t expect results
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Gov. Inslee sounds off on federal water regulation
Timber company says it bears no responsibility in Oso mudslide
McCusker: Devil’s advocate might have prevented Haggen mess
Editorial: Speed up oil-by-rail measures
Journal of the San Juan Islands
Larsen and Thornberry provision on transportation for veterans passes Congress
News Tribune (subscription required)
Reporting via social media stirs anger in college shooting
Federal Way courts WSU to open branch campus not far from UW Tacoma
Olympian (subscription required)
Lacey receives first marijuana revenue distribution from state
Peninsula Daily News
Light-recycling program is deemed success in Washington state; here’s where to recycle on Peninsula
Puget Sound Business Journal
Deadly Ride the Ducks crash prompts look at just how safe the Aurora Bridge really is
Congress changes Obamacare for larger small businesses
Jobs report as dreary as East Coast weather (Video)
5 things business leaders can do to help change the dysfunctional health care system
Seattle Times (subscription required)
State gets competition as Oregon starts pot sales
2 City Council members decry soaring rent at rundown South Seattle apartments
After the wildfires: A tale of 3 Washington towns
At colleges, ‘It’s always a balance’ between security, openness
Lawsuit challenges Seattle’s clampdown on medical pot
Op-Ed: Seattle could learn from Berlin on how to help housing crisis
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Testing debate offers opportunity to reflect on what is important
Yakima Herald Republic
Important dates ahead as November election looms
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Roseburg braces for names of Umpqua shooting victims
Oregon campus shooting prompts bad memories at SPU
Firefighters now part of response plan in active shooter situation
Tenants say they face unsafe, unhealthy conditions and rent hike
Are drivers avoiding I-405 tolls?
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Gov. Inslee to renew gun control efforts in wake of Roseburg shooting
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Videos show disputed oil trains rolling by stadiums during games
NW Public Radio
Washington Governor Calls Mass Shootings ‘National Scourge’
Another Washington Juvenile Killer To Be Released From Prison Due To Law Change
Q13 TV (FOX)
Inslee backs possible Aurora Bridge improvements after deadly crash; ‘Duck’ lawyer defends company before state commission
Oregon shooting: 10 dead at Umpqua Community College
Frantic students hid behind backpacks, chairs in Oregon shooting
Visibly angry Obama says ‘thoughts, prayers’ not enough as nation becomes ‘numb’ to mass shootings
WEB
Crosscut
Can justice be served without putting kids behind bars?
Seattle P.I.
Congress lets Land and Water Conservation Fund expire; it has protected Washington places low and high
UW Human Rights Center will sue CIA for stonewalling information request on assassinations