OUR NEWS RELEASES FROM THIS WEEK
- Governor signs McEntire legislation to increase flexible school calendar waivers
- OPINION: Legislature is failing to address the child care crisis (Rep. Tom Dent)
AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Water allotment drops to 63% for Yakima Valley junior water rights holders (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- EDITORIAL: Reclassifying potatoes goes against the grain (The Columbian)
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Washington trade mission heading to Vietnam without Inslee (Washington State Standard)
- Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million for 737 Max 9 blowout fallout (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Google hits pause on Kirkland campus (The Seattle Times)
CAPITAL BUDGET
CHILD CARE
COURTS (FEDERAL)
COURTS (STATE)
- Washington Supreme Court reverses Kitsap County DUI case decision challenging breathalyzers (KING TV)
- Future of Washington public defense funding unclear after judge tosses lawsuit (Spokane Public Radio)
- Two-month wait for public defenders as Yakima County attorney shortage grows worse (Yakima Herald-Republic)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- New Washington law will crack down on catalytic converter theft (Axios – Seattle)
- Father of girls killed in Renton crash calling for accountability: “this was no ‘dumb mistake’” (FOX 13)
- Two-year-old in Federal Way dies from gunshot injuries (MyNorthwest)
- How will Metro Parks Tacoma handle security after violent events at Point Defiance? (The News Tribune)
EDUCATION
- How Seattle Public School’s use of ‘social identity wheels’ could violate federal law (The Center Square)
- Soap Lake enrollment drop affects revenue, places staffing at risk (Columbia Basin Herald)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Washington’s largest utility approaches renewable energy milestone (Puget Sound Business Journal)
- Should wind turbines be limited on Tri-Cities Horse Heaven Hills? Washington taking comments (Tri-City Herald)
- OPINION: Rely on natural gas? Washington lawmakers don’t care. The state’s ‘phaseout’ will cost you (Sen. Chris Gildon/The News Tribune)
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
- Federal proposals aim to increase medical training for students in rural communities (KIRO TV)
- King County doctor: Confronting bird flu with lessons learned from COVID-19 (MyNorthwest)
- New Multicare Deaconess and Valley hospital contract ratified; up to 25% wage increase coming for some workers (The Spokesman-Review)
- OPINION: Many patients, not enough beds: Here’s how to solve a care crisis (Jeannine Erickson Grinnell, CEO of Valley Medical Center, Sommer Kleweno Walley, CEO of Harborview Medical Center, and Cynthia Hecker, CEO of UW Medical Center/The Seattle Times)
HOMELESSNESS
- New pilot program aims to help unhoused Tacoma students access affordable housing (The News Tribune)
- EDITORIAL: Cities make progress on homelessness while regional effort flounders (The Seattle Times)
HOUSING
INSURANCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Did Seattle defund the police? Five graphs explain this enduring myth (KUOW Radio)
- Vancouver police stretched thin as officers pulled off patrol to respond to growing number of calls (The Columbian)
LEGISLATURE
MENTAL HEALTH
- State to fund new youth mental health center at former Daybreak facility in Brush Prairie (The Columbian)
- Comprehensive Healthcare mobile outreach to begin this summer (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
OTHER STATES
- More red states explore ESAs (Pluribus News)
- Oregon Senate Republicans have tapped a new leader (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Portland Mayor Wheeler unveils a new public camping ban policy (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Idaho Legislature passes bills to limit gender expression, ban compelled pronoun use (Washington State Standard)
REDISTRICTING
- U.S. Supreme Court declines to block new Washington legislative map (Crosscut)
- Washington state legislative map clears U.S. Supreme Court appeal (KNKX Radio)
SOCIAL MEDIA
TRANSPORTATION
- Washington has some of the worst roads in America, according to a new nationwide analysis (The News Tribune)
- Why are gas prices so high in Seattle? Here’s what we know (FOX 13)
- New traffic signs may catch you looking at your phone (The Seattle Times)
- It’s a big year for regional light rail, but tough questions loom for Sound Transit board (KNKX Radio)
- Lynnwood Link to launch in August: ‘A major milestone’ for light rail (The Everett Herald)
- COLUMN: How avalanches changed PNW train travel (Knute “Mossback” Berger/Crosscut)