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Friday, August 28
Associated Press
Officials breach levee to open wetlands to salmon recovery
Scientists, tribe study shrinking Washington state glacier
Officials issue warning about firefighter impersonators
State: 67 percent of Washington toddlers vaccinated on time
Kapowsin Meats recalls pork from Washington, Oregon, Alaska
Washington governor calls fires ‘slow-motion disaster’
Lummi Nation ask federal officials to reject permit for dock
Court: Texts on public employee cellphones are public records
State no longer seeking volunteers to fight fires
Supreme Court upholds deal on tribal gas stations
Senators: We must do more to prevent wildfires (Congress)
Aberdeen Daily World
Kilmer talks business, industry on Harbor
Residential landlords to require business licenses
Columbian
Vancouver Red Lion to close; 82 will lose jobs
In Our View: Hough Pool’s Metamorphosis
The Daily News
Business owners, city officials react to KapStone strike
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Economy grows at robust rate in second quarter
McCusker: Accounting for wildfires’ cost won’t be easy
Puget Sound Business Journal
Judge blocks EPA’s Clean Water Rule — but maybe only in 13 states
Renton gets a boost from $1.5B military order for sub hunter
Supreme court must back off Legislature
Seattle Times (subscription required)
NLRB expands standards for ‘joint employers’
Wildfire experts testify at congressional hearing
For students with learning disabilities, real life often is more satisfying than high school, study suggests
Op-Ed: Vancouver Energy terminal: good for Washington and nation
Expanding climate-change issue to diverse communities
Skagit Valley Herald
Swinomish suing government over release of records
County discusses farmworker housing expansion with Burlington
Tri-City Herald
Our Voice: Wildfires should have natural disaster status
Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial – Senate GOP should focus on education funding
Yakima Herald Republic
Fruit growers to be surveyed about chemical use
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Patient safety advocates demand transparency
Trend: Crowdfunding for college tuition
Sound Transit Board starts shaping Sound Transit 3 proposal
Bees behind bars give prisoners a second chance
Pierce County prosecutor must produce text messages
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Cantwell, Goldmark push to protect wildfire prevention money
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Crews battling fast-moving brush fire in Mason County
Photos: Gov. Inslee tours Chelan Complex wildfire zone
NW Public Radio
Wash. Gov On Tour Of Fire Lines Calls For ‘Attack’ On Carbon Pollution
By Air And Ground, Tour Of Washington Wildfires Reveals Destruction, Unpredictability
Q13 TV (FOX)
Fast-moving wildfire grows to 50 acres north of Shelton in Mason County
WEB
Seattle P.I.
Where does the UW rank among the world’s best universities?
Lakes Washington, Union lowest in 28 years
EPA wants $367,500 penalties on Jorgensen for faulty cleanup work on the Duwamish
Thursday, August 27
Associated Press
Judge sets limits in civil case over deadly Oso mudslide
Witnesses say man fatally shot by deputy was walking away
UW Bothell professors, former student make math discovery
Court: Texts on public employee’s cell phone public records
‘Cougar Nation’ remembers WSU President Elson Floyd
Area the size of Rhode Island burning in state
Columbian
In Our View: Traffic Hits Braking Point
Wildfire season is Washington’s worst
Oil terminal ruling favors Vancouver port
Transportation Vancouver residents’ top priority
The Daily News
Longview, Kelso schools feel the effects of a teacher shortage
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Hobbs, McCoy join ‘Friendship Mission’ to Japan (Hobbs, McCoy, Fraser)
Editorial: Enough with the shutdown games
Issaquah Press
Future transit plans include bringing light rail to Issaquah
Journal of the San Juan Islands
Rep. Rick Larsen visits the San Juans
Mercer Island Reporter
State of fire | Editorial
News Tribune (subscription required)
Inslee visiting fire crews, touring wildfire damage today
Project Peace conversations aim at bettering relations between Tacoma police, citizens
Editorial: Biggest affordable housing problem is lack of it
Opinion: Matt Driscoll: Pierce County Council, mental health system both broken
Olympian (subscription required)
Olympia council pushes against PSE’s use of coal power
Opinion: Social Security, at 80, is still essential and affordable
Peninsula Daily News
State schools Superintendent Randy Dorn rallies Sequim district teachers; meets in Chimacum with administration, McCleary
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Seattle Children’s Bellevue clinic warns of potential infection risk
Smoke grounds aircraft battling some Washington wildfires
Animated map: How the wildfires in North Central Washington have grown over time
Editorial: Seattle’s crackdown on hookah bars not about race when public safety at stake
Friedman: Trump’s ugly nativism isn’t cute anymore
Snoqualmie Valley Record
DNR buys Hancock easement to protect owl habitat
Spokesman Review
Drought, wildfires combine to impact region’s wildlife
A president’s passion honored
As school year nears, Spokane teachers still need new contract
McMorris Rodgers, Newhouse criticize Inslee on carbon efforts
Editorial: With luck, Wyman could set up meaningful presidential primary
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Fish farms could prompt lawsuit against government
Tahoma public schools integrate students with special needs
Thousands respond to call for wildfire volunteers
KIRO 7 TV (CBS)
Two drone pilots ticketed for ‘Orca Protection Violations’
KPLU FM
Drought Becomes Deadly For Olympic Pennisula’s Hatchery Fish
Once Wildfire Danger Passes, Visitors Can Help Economic Recovery
KUOW FM
There Are Kids Fighting Fires In Washington State
Q&A: The Wildfire-Climate-Change Connection
Washington Lt. Governor Touted Company At Center Of SEC Investigation
Killing Seabirds To Save Salmon On The Columbia
Seeing Big Picture Of A Million Acres Of Flames In Northwest
MyNorthwest.com (KIRO FM)
Insurance companies sue to get out of paying for Bertha repairs
NW Public Radio
Drones Compromise Firefighting Efforts
At WSU Memorial, President Floyd Is Remembered As Visionary Friend Of Students
Washington Lt. Governor Touted Company At Center Of SEC Investigation
WEB
Crosscut
Judge: Step back, be patient on police reform
Education Week
Wash. State Lawmakers Face Hard Choices on K-12 Finance (Rolfes)
Horsesass.org
Back Underground (Bertha)
Seattle P.I.
The NRA’s Olympia lobbyist defends ivory-handled guns, takes on ‘huge billionaire’ Paul Allen
Slog
There Was “a Large Sewage Spill” in Lake Washington This Morning
Guest Editorial: Today Is Women’s Equality Day, but in Washington, Women Still Don’t Have Equal Rights (Nelson)
Wednesday, August 26
Associated Press
Improving economy shares blame for worst US traffic ever
Port of Longview exports down 19 percent
Judge rules Vancouver oil terminal did not violate laws
CWU to offer tuition waivers for students affected by fires
University of Idaho, WSU get grant to map wildfire threats
Urban areas where commuters endure the most extra hours
Everett high school bans apparel from non-Seattle teams
Improving economy fuels congestion
Aberdeen Daily World
Council to draft oil resolution with examiner’s recommendation, Port requests
Columbian
What’s Up With That? Budget impasse altered lottery rules
Camden: Education funding more a conundrum than a crisis
In Our View: Our Climate Is Changing
The Daily News
Editorial via Seattle Times: Hold the applause for the $15 minimum-wage experiment
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Burbank: State income tax would fix school funding and much more
Editorial: Help those hit hard by wildfire
Olympian (subscription required)
Editorial: Vaccinating kids just makes sense
Puget Sound Business Journal
Seattle drivers spend 63 hours a year stuck in traffic
UW leads $11M clinical trial, largest ever, on psychiatric disorders in rural America
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Seattle No. 7 on list of cities with worst traffic in U.S.
Insurers sue to avoid paying $143M for Bertha repairs
‘Green zone’ of fruit orchards helping to slow fires
Complex in North Cascades growing, carrying heavy smoke
Worried about wildfire smoke? Here’s how to track air quality in Wash. and beyond
Bellevue School District requests state probe of football program
Officials worry North Star, Okanogan wildfires could combine
Editorial: Too much testing in Washington high schools should end
Talton: Did Amazon really kill Seattle?
Seattle Weekly
Airbnb Is Soaring in Seattle. Is It Causing Rent to Do the Same?
Higher Ground: The Weed Wire
Skagit Valley Herald
State resources mobilized to aid firefighting near Newhalem
Spokesman Review
Sen. Patty Murray backs Iran nuclear deal
Public Safety Building break-in shows security shortfalls
Idaho state lawmaker’s Confederate flag photo disappointing to some
Pullman-Moscow airport lands funding for new runway
Region added 5,600 jobs over year
Shawn Vestal: Lawmakers have authority to fund schools, not necessarily ability
Tri-City Herald
Our Voice: Conservation fund must be top priority in September
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Editorial: Washington fires bring climate change home
Opinion: Regarding ferries, speak up or lose service
Yakima Herald Republic
CWU cuts tuition by $1K for students displaced by fires
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
King Co. lawmaker pushes for money to test rape kits (Orwall)
Interest in Seattle’s universal preschool exceeds expectations
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
More heat warnings as help joins fight against wildfires
Freedom of information or a waste of taxpayer money? (Video)
Report names Tukwila ‘2nd most dangerous city in America’
KUOW FM
Recess, Testing Are Among Top Issues For Seattle Teachers’ Contract Proposal
NW Public Radio
Swelling Ranks Of Firefighters Make Progress On Nation’s No. 1 Priority Wildfire
Killing Cormorants To Save Salmon On The Columbia
Q13 TV (FOX)
CWU to offer tuition waivers for students affected by fires
International help is on the way as largest fire in state’s history continues to grow
What? Tukwila is second most dangerous city in the country?
Family shares story on ‘Intervention’ as officials warn of heroin epidemic in Snohomish County
Police say much of the rise in gun violence in Seattle area due to gangs
Oregon builder planning disaster-proof concrete homes
WEB
Civic Skunkworks
The Seattle Times editorial board can go pho itself (minimum wage)
Publicola
NRA Sues City Over New Gun Tax (McCleary, Hunter)
Seattle P.I.
Stevens County asks the almighty for help in fighting fires
Slog
The Morning News: The NRA Sues Seattle, Amazon Launches One-Hour Delivery, and Okanogan Wildfires Break State Record
That Washington State Law I May Have Broken Might Be Unconstitutional
Police Reform Advocates Say Federal Oversight Hasn’t Gone Far Enough
Tuesday, August 25
Associated Press
Sound Transit weighs permits for park-and-ride customers
UW considers building offices atop light-rail station
Record wildfire in Washington gets international, local help (Photo Gallery) (Video)
Washington wildfire now largest in state history
Seattle teachers vote to continue bargaining
Federal deficit forecast to hit lowest level of Obama presidency
‘It’s only Aug. 24’: Fires expected to burn for months
NRA sues over Seattle’s adoption of ‘gun violence tax’
Columbian
C-Tran head: The Vine milestone ‘historic’
‘Smart’ approach to private wells
In Our View: Let Schools Start Later
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Robinson: Markets’ fall a reminder: It’s the economy, stupid
Editorial: Please, don’t toke and drive
Mercer Island Reporter
Back to work on education funding (Senn)
Olympian (subscription required)
Editorial: Tragedy strikes again in fire country
Opinion: Grays Harbor poor choice for locating crude oil terminals
Peninsula Daily News
Analyst: The Puget Sound region’s biotech industry has so much cash it doesn’t need to worry about China
Seattle Times (subscription required)
Bertha’s cutter drive moves back into pit with hundreds of new teeth
Okanogan complex wildfire now biggest in state history
Seattle teachers will vote on strike if there’s no deal by Sept. 3
Gun-rights groups sue to block new Seattle gun tax
Australian firefighters ‘happy to help’ in Northwest
Editorial: Hold the applause for the $15 minimum-wage experiment
Tarleton: Stakes too high to delay action on Iran nuclear deal
Krugman: Global economic weakness is the new norm
Op-Ed: Pricey, effective new drugs save lives and cut medical costs
Spokesman Review
Region’s unhealthy air quality likely to persist
Spokane’s searing summer sets records for heat, dry
Grant will help map Northwest wildfire threats
Editorial: Imperative to draw good students into teaching
Yakima Herald Republic
New school year brings plenty of changes
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Okanogan complex big enough to cover Tacoma to Mukilteo
Sound Transit weighs permits for park-and-ride customers
Seattle teachers vote to continue bargaining
2,000-ton piece of Bertha lowered into pit for reassembly
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
NRA sues over Seattle’s adoption of ‘gun violence tax’
NW Public Radio
Firefighters Aided By Calm Weather Make ‘Great Progress’ On Washington Fires
Smoke From Washington Wildfires Spreads
Q13 TV (FOX)
NRA sues Seattle over ‘gun violence tax’, says it violates state law
Bertha’s repaired cutter-head being lowered back into access pit
New numbers reveal marijuana increasing as a factor in deadly crashes in Washington
WEB
Seattle P.I.
The Gun Lobby sues to shoot down Seattle’s new tax on firearms, ammunition purchases
Obama will visit rural Alaska communities in trip focusing on climate change
Slog
Tunnel Update: Bertha’s Front End Is Going Back in the Ground Today and Tomorrow
West Seattle Blog
Seattle Public Schools teachers’ contract talks resume tomorrow, with union-set deadline
Monday, August 24
Associated Press
Less smoke could mean more fire in Washington state
Smoke starting to lift over Washington fires
Western wildfires: Firefighters to get additional resources
Monitor: Too many in jails awaiting competency services
Snohomish swamped with request for data from county phones
‘I’m alive’ – people survey damage from Washington fire
The Latest: Fire in Washington now largest in state history
Aberdeen Daily World
Silver Alerts coming to electronic highway signs
Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
Editorial reprint: NW View: Does climate change make Washington fires the new normal?
Columbian
Demand grows for new ways to consume marijuana
WSU scientists developing Breathalyzer-type pot test
Fines the state owes to courts piling up
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Schools too focused on testing, poll finds
With legalization, fatal crashes involving marijuana ‘spiked’
Guest commentary: School safety requires a range of responses
Hightower: Every diploma shouldn’t come with huge debt
Editorial: Move school start times an hour later
Editorial: Limit hours to boost work
Islands’ Sounder
Opinion: Response to Supreme Court’s school decision
News Tribune (subscription required)
19 lawmakers: State Supreme Court order – and $100,000 per-day fine – unconstitutional (Nelson)
Months of contempt-of-court fines go unpaid by state
At defense forum, Reps. Smith and Heck give ‘depressing’ outlook on military budgets
Op-ed: Stanford Prison Experiment was insightful and all too personal
Op-ed: Climate change hits communities of color harder
Olympian (subscription required)
Editorial: Ralph’s pharmacy fight will continue
Oregonian
Oregon’s hot hash oil market drives demand for marijuana ‘trim’
Puget Sound Business Journal
Washington’s construction boom keeps going with 15,300 new jobs
Seattle Times (subscription required)
A milestone for new 520 bridge
Legislature takes heat for squeezed fire budgets (Hunter)
Winds creating hotter, dynamic fire conditions
UW may build office tower atop U District light-rail station
Hundreds rally against Planned Parenthood in Spokane
Seattle Weekly
I-502 Foes Were Right (Maybe): More People Are Getting Nabbed for Driving High
Spokesman Review
Federal aid arrives for tired firefighters
Fire mobilization center staged at Fairchild
Fire growth slows, smoke heads west
Planned Parenthood protest draws hundreds
Public lands transfer activist holding Boise fundraiser
Senate Republicans play the ‘crisis’ card over court ruling
WSU investigates hacking attempt
Editorial: More firefighting resources needed
Tri-City Herald
Closure of inpatient detox facility forces Tri-City addicts back on the streets
Walla Walla Union Bulletin (subscription required)
Editorial: Governor sets proper tone for education funding debate
Editorial: Increase in driving while stoned is serious concern
Yakima Herald Republic
Apple growers expect more exports in coming year
GWMA reports progress on clean water initiatives, but concerns remain for some
Guest column: Want to sustain ag and engineering? Promote real science education
Editorial: Levies are ripe for reform as
lawmakers again deal with schools
BROADCAST
KING 5 TV (NBC)
Open letter criticizes supreme court on McCleary order (Nelson)
Okanogan family battles to protect homes from fire
More resources arriving to help fire fight
I-405 express toll lanes ad campaign launched
New zigzag warning lines painted on state routes
Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes
KOMO 4 TV (ABC)
Fallen firefighters remembered during tribute to first responders
KUOW FM
Seattle Seawall Will Take Longer, Cost More Than Expected
Daycare Babies Must Be Vaccinated. No One Knows If They Actually Are
MyNorthwest.com (KIRO FM)
Supreme Court’s ruling may not be the final word on $15 at Sea-Tac
NW Public Radio
Investigation Begins Into Firefighter Deaths Near Twisp
Canyon Creek Complex Moves Away From Homes, Into Wilderness
Q13 TV (FOX)
New details in deaths of 3 firefighters: Vehicle fell down 40-foot embankment
Crews brace for flare-ups as 16 Washington wildfires cover 920 square miles
Washington man’s concrete-dome home survives wildfire
For first time in state history, Washington accepting citizen volunteers to help fight fires
WEB
Crosscut
Link between birth control and breast cancer, but no clear answers
Some GOP senators want to fight state Supreme Court over daily fines (Hunter, Nelson)
Wildfires threaten Methow’s long road to recovery
Seawall could sap funding for bridges and bikes
Publicola
Back at Ya? (McCleary, Chopp, Frockt, Nelson)
Seattle P.I.
Two Canadian towns on standby for evacuation because of Washington fire; feds issue emergency declaration
S.R. 20, the North Cascades Highway, remains closed due to 3,100 acre Goodell fire
Slog
Is Legalization Really Responsible for More Car Crashes?
Guest Editorial: Nine Ways to Be a White Ally in the Fight Against Institutional and Structural Racism