Deadlier drugs, younger addiction and no help in sight; WA’s state hospitals are admitting patients on time. What’s needed to keep it up?

BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR

• August jobs report shows job losses for US-born workers, gains for foreign-born (FOX 13)
• Barely getting by in the Seattle area on one income? You’re not alone (The Seattle Times)
• Kroger and Albertsons have pledged to cut prices once merged. Here’s what that means (The Oregonian)
• Seattle’s office real estate market still sluggish (Washington State Standard)
• Boeing reaches deal that could avoid strike by more than 30,000 machinists (AP)

CANNABIS

• Redmond cannabis shop hit with fifth smash-and-grab robbery, at odds with city over solution (KIRO TV)

CORONAVIRUS

• ‘I didn’t know it existed.’ Why young people are the least vaccinated in Seattle area (KUOW Radio)

COURTS (STATE)

• Washington high court overturns lower courts, firms up Ecology’s power (Capital Press)
• ‘This nightmare will never be over’: Mother of Freeman School shooting victim addresses killer at resentencing (KXLY TV)

CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY

• Leaders have candid conversation about Seattle’s gun violence (FOX 13)
• Chad White to close Zona Blanca, citing downtown crime (The Spokesman-Review)
• OPINION: Washington needs more public defenders and prosecutors, along with police (Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley/The Spokesman-Review)
• COLUMN: Stolen car was abandoned, then stolen again in matter of moments in Tacoma (Jason Rantz/MyNorthwest)

DRUG CRISIS

• Deadlier drugs, younger addiction and no help in sight (The Seattle Times)
• 5 key points tell the story of youth addiction and treatment in WA (The Seattle Times)
• What to know about getting addiction treatment for kids in Washington (The Seattle Times)

EDUCATION

• University of Washington researchers to explore impacts of cellphone bans in schools (KING TV)
• WA Board of Ed looks to expand controversial ethnic studies graduation requirement (The Center Square)
• Seattle families brace for school closures. What can we learn from last time? (KUOW Radio)
• Highline schools closing Monday because of cyberattack (The Seattle Times)
• Olympia school board member ‘uncomfortable’ working with peers after rift at retreat (The Olympian)
• Walla Walla schools report positive impact from Yondr pouches (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• OPINION: Lawmakers must fix growing school funding shortfall (Joel Aune, Executive Director Washington Association of School Administrators/Everett Herald)
• OPINION: Community schools should not be short-changed to provide choice programs (Miriam Hathaway and Erika Lari, both parents from Olympia/The Olympian)

ENVIRONMENT

• $80M in infrastructure funding aimed at Bainbridge Island’s Wyckoff site cleanup (Kitsap Sun)

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & THE WHITE HOUSE

• Family of UW grad killed at West Bank protest calls for investigation (The Seattle Times)

FISH

• Columbia and Snake River tribes fight to keep fishing traditions alive (Oregon Capital Chronicle/KNKX Radio)

HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS

• New cap on Medicare prescription drug costs to benefit 3 million next year (KOMO TV)
• ‘My kids go to Costco now,’ and other reasons drugstores are hurting (Los Angeles Times/The Seattle Times)
• A clinical study from Multicare led to another critical drug entering the fight against HIV (KXLY TV)

HIGHER EDUCATION

• OPINION: Parents, let your new college student stumble and grow (Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan, president of Lewis & Clark College/The Seattle Times)

HOMELESSNESS

• Promise of Medicaid funding to plug homelessness budgets unmet (The Seattle Times)
• Council president on homelessness: ‘We are Spokane; we do things differently here’ (The Center Square)
• Vancouver nonprofit’s trash removal program helps people experiencing homelessness find work (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

HOUSING

• King County Council considers housing development for middle-income residents (KUOW Radio)
• Teachers see rental affordability near schools rise, home ownership still expensive (KOMO TV)
• Housing project to receive $2M from tax fund (Peninsula Daily News)

LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Fish and Wildlife to receive Quincy-area land in transfer (Columbia Basin Herald)

LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Seattle’s non-police first responders prepare to expand footprint (KUOW Radio)
• Crime Reduction Team promising in first few months (Columbia Basin Herald)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Special prosecutor calls behavior of Franklin officials ‘irregular.’ But was it a crime? (Tri-City Herald)
• Septic company files suit against Kitsap health district’s requirement to collect fees (Kitsap Sun)

MEDIA

• COLUMN: Washington news organizations creating Olympia bureau (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)

MENTAL HEALTH

• WA’s state hospitals are admitting patients on time. What’s needed to keep it up? (The Seattle Times)
• In Seattle area, 988 mental health hotline supports tens of thousands in crisis (KUOW Radio)

MILITARY & VETERANS

• Tacoma-raised sailor comes home from WWII 83 years later. He’ll be buried Sept. 11 (The News Tribune)

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Where did the Northwest Forest Plan go wrong? (Capital Press)
• Environmentalists, loggers reach consensus on NW Forest Plan amendment (Capital Press)

SCHOOL SAFETY

• OPINION: Faster lockdowns, cop cooperation: How Yakima does school safety (Trevor Greene, superintendent of the Yakima School District/The Seattle Times)

STATE GOVERNMENT

• ‘Walkout for Washington’: 50K state employees to demand better pay, staffing on Sept. 10 (KOMO TV)

TRANSPORTATION

• How hidden humans help self-driving cars navigate city streets (The Seattle Times)
• North Cascades Highway to close for several days next week for culvert, bridge work (The Bellingham Herald)
• WA scuttles $200,000 sale of two retired state ferries (Washington State Standard)
• Spokane International Airport receives over $18 million through AIP funding (KHQ TV)

WATER

• WA finally catches a (small) break from drought conditions (The Seattle Times)
• Chewelah to upgrade water infrastructure for the first time in 50 years; new well will eliminate manganese (The Spokesman-Review)

WEATHER & CLIMATE

• ‘Wimpy’ winter ahead for Pacific Northwest despite La Niña prediction, climatologist says (KUOW Radio)

WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE

• Firefighters from around the country are being brought in to fight wildfires across western Washington (KGMI Radio/My Bellingham Now)
• How Roslyn became a model for community-led wildfire management (Cascade PBS)
• What’s next? Businesses, governments, residents recover from Retreat Fire (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• No rafting season this year on Tieton River because of Retreat Fire (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• Blewett Fire 65% contained (KPQ Radio)

WILDLIFE

• Idaho archery hunters shoot, kill grizzly bear in self defense (The Lewiston Tribune)
• Kettle Falls woman survives black bear attack while hiking (KHQ TV