ABORTION
AGRICULTURE
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- A potential dockworkers strike could mean product shortages and high prices ahead of the holidays (AP)
- Data, pilot projects showing food service robots may not threaten jobs (States Newsroom/Washington State Standard)
- Latest talks between Boeing and its striking machinists break off without progress, union says (AP)
- Boeing strike delivers $1.4 billion hit to Washington’s economy (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Schweitzer Engineering to hire hundreds of workers (The Spokesman-Review)
CHILD CARE
CONGRESS
CORONAVIRUS
CORRECTIONS & JAILS
COURTS (STATE)
- Public safety advocates warn of effort to reduce public defender caseloads (The Center Square)
- A Pierce County teacher was charged with molestation. Now the students’ parents are suing (The News Tribune)
- Investors claim Everett firm used a Ponzi scheme (The Everett Herald)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- Violent crime at Southcenter mall still near record-high following shooting (KOMO TV)
- OPINION: Erroneous perception of crime is a crime in itself (Craig Brown, Editor/The Columbian)
- OPINION: Long prison sentences don’t keep us safe (David Trieweiler, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers/Yakima Herald-Republic)
CYBERSECURITY
- Recovery from cyberattack costs Seattle Public Library over $1 million (KUOW Radio)
- No Internet, no computers: Hack of Highline Public Schools still impacting staff, students (KING TV)
DRUG CRISIS
- Spokane drug counselor suspended following sexual affair, overdose and death of patient in her home (The Spokesman-Review)
- ‘Meeting people where they’re at’: Addiction treatment center supports rural Whatcom County (The Bellingham Herald)
- Opioid overdoses declining in Kitsap, according to recent data (Kitsap Sun)
- Sequim, first responders considering Naloxone distribution spots (Peninsula Daily News)
EDUCATION
- Board rules on disputed plan to replace program for ‘neediest’ Kennewick students (Tri-City Herald)
- Moses Lake School District addresses nursing concerns, passes Title IX resolution amendment (Columbia Basin Herald)
- COLUMN: Thank you, Gov. Evans, for opening public schools to people with disabilities (Kate Riley/The Seattle Times)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
- Earthquake risk data for Washington public schools is incomplete and out of reach (Washington State Standard)
- Nearly 150 Snohomish County firefighters may have inhaled asbestos during training exercise (MyNorthwest)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
HIGHER EDUCATION
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
- Seattle churches wanting to build affordable housing face testing times (The Seattle Times)
- Residents of senior mobile home park in Walla Walla fight 44% rent increase (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Seattle Police lost 23 guns and don’t know where they went (KUOW Radio)
- Thurston County Sheriff defends decision to pursue stolen pickup truck (KIRO TV)
- Vancouver police officer fatally shoots man after standoff in Walnut Grove area (The Columbian)
- Longview rolls back police pursuit rules to mirror state, follow more suspects (The Daily News)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Whistleblower brings $10 million wrongful termination claim against Pierce County city (The News Tribune)
- Orting whistleblower files $10 million claim against city (MyNorthwest)
- When will the investigation into Commissioner Clouse end? Thurston County has few answers (The Olympian)
- Budget presentation spells out big cuts for Everett amid deficit (The Everett Herald)
- COLUMN: Who is pulling the plug on Seattle’s public TV — and how to save it (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
MEDIA
OPERATING BUDGET
OTHER STATES
- Oregon poverty remains relatively low overall – but higher for some groups, and in some places (The Oregonian)
- Oregon voter registration error was detected six weeks before top elections officials were told (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Feds postpone auction of two wind energy sites off Oregon coast as Kotek pulls out of task force (Oregon Capital Chronicle/Washington State Standard)
- Fees to park and camp at Oregon state parks set to rise in 2025 (The Bulletin/The Seattle Times)
POLITICS
STATE
SCHOOL SAFETY
SECURITY
SPORTS
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Washington State Penitentiary inmates work to erase backlog of 250,000 license plates (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- Washington state faces license plate shortage: Will non-embossed plates become the new standard? (KIRO TV)
- WA to pay $25 million in Evergreen student’s carbon monoxide death (The Seattle Times)
- EDITORIAL: Laying Washington’s death penalty to rest (Yakima Herald-Republic)
TAXES
TRANSPORTATION
- WSDOT faces criticism over timing, management of ‘monster’ weekend traffic projects (KOMO TV)
- More than half of Washington’s electric vehicle rebate funding is used up (Washington State Standard)
- Get ’em while you can: WA set to run out of EV rebates next month (The Seattle Times)
- Washington ferry prices to rise Tuesday, second increase in two years (KOMO TV)
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE
- Can WA hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires? (The Seattle Times)
- DNR supporting reforestation efforts with over $900,000 awarded to Washington communities (KREM TV)
WILDLIFE
- Wolves, bears and cougars under scrutiny as agricultural leaders argue for more regulations (KHQ TV)
- Stevens County Sheriff testifies in regard to recent depredations in the county (KREM TV)
- Why the Salish Sea’s new baby orca surprised researchers (KUOW Radio)
- How Washington plans to spy on seals, sea lions with drones (KUOW Radio)
