AGRICULTURE & WATER
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- U.S. economy accelerated to a strong 4.9% rate last quarter as consumers shrugged off Fed rate hikes (AP)
- What’s behind the fall of Seattle unicorn Convoy (Axios – Seattle)
- OPINION: Lawsuits over Washington’s new pay transparency law highlights flaws in how it was enacted (Kris Johnson President of Association of WA Business/Kitsap Sun)
CONGRESS
- Mike Johnson elected speaker of the House after being nominated by McMorris Rodgers (The Spokesman-Review)
- Mike Johnson, a staunch Louisiana conservative, is elected House speaker as GOP moves past chaos (AP)
CORONAVIRUS
COURTS (STATE)
- Cardiologist testifies police restraint of Manuel Ellis led to his death in their custody (The News Tribune)
- Spokane doctor used his own sperm in fertility care, lawsuit alleges (The Seattle Times)
- Tri-Cities rapist faces life in prison after jury finds him guilty of rare 3rd strike (Tri-City Herald)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
DRUG CRISIS
EDUCATION
- Are 4-day school weeks better or worse for students? Here’s what the research says (KOMO TV)
- Behind the effort to save Pierce County’s historic Parkland School (KNKX Radio)
- Puyallup church ends lease of K-6 school that would play teams with transgender athletes (The News Tribune)
- Katherine Thomas to remain after taking Wenatchee School Board to task for being ‘politicized and petty’ (The Wenatchee World)
ELECTIONS
ENERGY & UTILITIES
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & THE WHITE HOUSE
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
- DOH urges blood donations as Washington blood supply runs ‘dangerously low’ (KIRO TV)
- Providence nurses fight for better rights after more than 600 quit in last 18 months (MyNorthwest)
HIGHER EDUCATION
- These are the most expensive colleges in Washington — and the price is going up (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Hundreds of students participate in anti-Israel rally at UW (MyNorthwest)
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
- Seattle outreach program offers a lifeline: Turning dilapidated RVs into permanent homes (KOMO TV)
- COLUMN: Creating an ecosystem for Black homeownership in WA (Michael Brown, the civic architect at Civic Commons/The Seattle Times)
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Spokane sheriff wants more scrutiny of use-of-force incidents (The Center Square)
- Sheriff tells Spokane Valley City Council policy change is underway after beating of man in park, saying his office ‘has to uphold public trust’ (The Spokesman-Review)
- Everett unveils ‘Officer Dan Rocha Way” (FOX 13)
LEGISLATURE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MENTAL HEALTH
- Seattle launches pilot program to tackle mental health calls (The Seattle Times)
- Seattle launches mental health pilot program to aid non-emergency policing (The Center Square)
- Chelan County behavior health unit seen as model in Washington (KPQ Radio)
- Afraid of losing their wings, pilots may not seek mental health care (KING TV)
- Lawmakers blame Inslee’s ‘broken promise’ for delays on behavioral health treatment facility in Chehalis (The Chronicle)
OTHER STATES
- What we know about the mass shooting in Maine so far (AP)
- Reports show more Oregon students on track to graduate, but attendance, college advancement are down (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Labor union aims to bring back Oregon ban on self-serve gas (The Oregonian)
PARKS
SCHOOL SAFETY
- ‘Swatting’ threats put dozens of WA schools on lockdown last spring; FBI investigating nationwide hoax calls (FOX 13)
- Seattle students robbed in 14 incidents since September, police say (The Seattle Times)
SOCIAL MEDIA
TRANSPORTATION
- Fixing Washington’s ‘broken’ transportation funding system (The Center Square)
- Washington fine-tunes its options for boosting electric vehicle sales (Washington State Standard)
- States make it cheaper to buy an EV, more expensive to own one (Pluribus News)
- These are Tacoma’s five most dangerous roads, according to local law injury attorneys (The News Tribune)
- Inslee checks in on Skagit County’s electric ferry project (Skagit Valley Herald)
WEATHER & CLIMATE
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE
- WA lands chief: State just had one of its ‘most challenging’ fire seasons ever (Washington State Standard)
- This year was one of Washington’s ‘most challenging’ fire seasons yet, according to lands chief (The Spokesman-Review)
WILDLIFE