AGRICULTURE & WATER
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- A rail strike looms and impact on US economy could be broad (AP)
- Consumers could pay price if railroads, unions can’t agree (AP)
- This year’s Thanksgiving turkey will cost you more. Here’s why (Crosscut)
- ‘Creative destruction’: Seattle-area tech companies paring back amid slowdown (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Amazon to begin locking out some laid-off employees on Wednesday (The Seattle Times)
- Judge orders Amazon to stop retaliations against organizers (AP)
- Starbucks to close second Capitol Hill store, citing safety concerns (The Seattle Times)
- OPINION: Creating a Washington economy that works for all by helping small businesses (Lisa Brown, director of the Washington state Department of Commerce/The Seattle Times)
CANNABIS
CONGRESS
- Newhouse re-elected as Western Caucus Chair (KONA Radio)
- Jayapal asks FTC to investigate Albertsons-Kroger merger (KOMO TV)
CRIME
- U.S.: $575M cryptocurrency fraud targeted Western WA victims (AP/The Seattle Times)
- Release rejected for dangerous sexual predator from Walla Walla (KONA Radio)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT
- The Evergreen State is losing its trees. Here’s how Washington DNR aims to change that (The News Tribune)
- Summer smoke is mostly gone — but it should linger in our minds (Crosscut)
FISH
- Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe decries DNR banning fish farming in Washington waters (The Center Square)
- Dungeness crab season delayed until at least mid-December (The Daily World)
GUN RIGHTS
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
- American Academy of Pediatrics urges Biden administration to declare emergency over ‘unprecedented’ RSV surge (FOX 13)
- Kirkland hospital uses COVID aid to trigger $1.9M in admin bonuses (Crosscut)
- VMFH closing outpatient therapy services at St. Michael Medical Center, other locations (Kitsap Sun)
HIGHER EDUCATION
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
INVASIVE SPECIES
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Bellevue police officer dies after motorcycle crash (The Seattle Times)
- Bellevue officer dies after motorcycle struck by car (KING TV)
- La Center budget keeps full police funding on the books (The Reflector)
LGBTQ
MENTAL HEALTH
OPERATING BUDGET
OTHER STATES
- Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pardons 45,000 people with marijuana possession convictions (The Oregonian)
- Oregon cities sue state government over parking reform, climate mandate (The Oregonian)
POLITICS
LEGISLATURE
SCHOOL SAFETY
TRANSPORTATION
- Washingtonians brace for highest Thanksgiving weekend pump prices in over 22 years (The Center Square)
- WA traffic deaths near 30-year high, safety groups call for changes (KNWN Radio)
- ‘Once-in-a-lifetime project’ will connect Puyallup to Port of Tacoma (KING TV)
- Long lines expected for Washington ferries this week (KGMI Radio)
- Ferry staff could have stopped 2 deaths from DUI crash, lawsuit alleges (KIRO TV)
TRIBAL ISSUES
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE