BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Employees with autism find new ways to navigate the workplace (The New York Times/The Seattle Times)
- Selling Washington’s food and farm products to the world (Washington State Standard)
- Black women employed by King County report lower pay, discrimination (The Seattle Times)
- Seattle-area grocery workers ‘flabbergasted’ by Kroger-Albertsons sales plan (KUOW Radio)
- Seattle restaurant owner responds to ire sparked by ‘living-wage’ surcharge after viral receipt (KING TV)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
CONGRESS
CORRECTIONS & JAILS
- State department transfers 43 young men from juvenile to adult jails in Washington (KING TV)
- ‘Unprecedented’: WA transfers 43 men in juvenile detention to adult prison (The Seattle Times)
- State transfers 43 inmates from Green Hill School; Gov. Inslee directs officials to consider new facility (The Chronicle)
- Kittitas County Jail first in WA to implement new inmate health monitoring system (KOMO TV)
- EDITORIAL: Youth prisons agency fumbles a crisis long in the making (The Seattle Times)
COURTS (FEDERAL)
- Federal judge dismisses Trump classified documents case over concerns with prosecutor’s appointment (AP)
- Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one’s sex on a birth certificate (AP)
COURTS (STATE)
- Judge rejects effort by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson to get records from Catholic church (AP)
- WA Supreme Court will hear dispute over printing initiative budget effects on ballots (Washington State Standard)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- The Spotlight: Heinous, unsolved murders in Washington (FOX 13)
- First victim of the Green River Killer was discovered 42 years ago today (KING TV)
- Seattle launches initiative to reduce gun violence (Axios – Seattle)
- Spokane adult family home operator faces felony charge (The Spokesman-Review)
- Crime trending down in Moses Lake, Ephrata (Columbia Basin Herald)
- COLUMN: What Seattle can learn from Boston and Detroit to decrease gun violence (Naomi Ishisaka/The Seattle Times)
DAMS
- U.S. and Canada strike deal to update 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty (The Spokesman-Review)
- Officials outline Columbia River Treaty update (Capital Press)
- Stakeholders wait and see on modernized Columbia River Treaty (Capital Press)
DRUG CRISIS
- Could B.C.’s safe drug supply experiment work in Washington? (Cascade PBS)
- Kitsap saw record number of opioid deaths in 2023 (Kitsap Sun)
EDUCATION
- School administrators get out early with a $1 billion budget boost request (The Washington Observer)
- OPINION: Embracing a phone-free future for Walla Walla’s middle schools (Wade Smith, Superintendent of Walla Walla Public Schools/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- OPINION: Our students need a dose of civics. Democracy depends on it (Meg Butterworth, author and freelance writer/The Seattle Times)
ELECTIONS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & THE WHITE HOUSE
FISH
HANFORD
HIGHER EDUCATION
- At Washington universities, enrollment questions persist (The Spokesman-Review)
- EWU rebrands itself polytechnic, while shifting its definition (The Spokesman-Review)
HOMELESSNESS
- Regional homelessness efforts need success, but job tougher than ever (The Seattle Times)
- Spokane Police Department not enforcing Prop 1 restriction despite prior statements (The Center Square)
- Tacoma approves $4.6M for ‘homeless encampment mitigation.’ What will that pay for? (The News Tribune)
- Clark County’s Community Court ‘way different from regular court’, sees success in helping the homeless (The Columbian)
- Whatcom County on pace for record number of deaths among homeless, according to recent data (The Bellingham Herald)
HOUSING
- Turnaround for ‘really strange’ housing market is a year off (The Orange County Register/The Seattle Times)
- Seattle home prices heat up, rank among nation’s top markets: report (FOX 13)
- Pierce County residents have requested millions for eviction prevention so far in 2024 (The News Tribune)
- East Wenatchee preparing for new ADU program (The Wenatchee World)
INSURANCE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Seattle City Council chair calls for implementing drug overdose audit recommendations (The Center Square)
- Spokane may add ‘housing status’ to list of protected classes amid homeless crisis (The Center Square)
- Lynnwood appoints new council member after abrupt resignation (The Everett Herald)
- ‘Paranoia’ or ‘vendetta.’ Franklin official faces legal trouble in clash over door key (Tri-City Herald)
MEDIA
MILITARY & VETERANS
OTHER STATES
- Oregon’s transportation system is due for an overhaul next year. Here’s what you need to know (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- 3 Idaho transgender prisoners sue over medical care. They can get treatment — for now. (The Idaho Statesman/The Spokesman-Review)
- Idaho’s avian flu outbreak in dairies is largely self-monitored (The Lewiston Tribune)
POLITICS
NATIONAL
- Trump calls for national unity after being injured in attempted assassination, Secret Service IDs gunman (AP/KING TV)
- Victim in Trump rally shooting died while shielding his family from gunfire (The Washington Post/The Seattle Times)
- In a world of moving pictures, photographs capture indelible moments in Trump assassination attempt (AP)
- Washington state politicians respond to attempted assassination of Donald Trump (The Chronicle)
- Washington, Spokane-area political leaders react to ‘horrendous’ shooting at Trump rally that injured former president (The Spokesman-Review)
- WSU professor says assassination attempt is stark reminder that heated political rhetoric must cool (The Spokesman-Review)
TRANSPORTATION
- With $1.5B, feds seal commitment to new I-5 bridge linking Washington and Oregon (Washington State Standard)
- Feds approve new $1.5 billion grant for I-5 Bridge replacement (The Columbian)
- SR 520 floating bridge commuters to see toll increases next month (The Center Square)
- ‘Rat-running’ technically isn’t illegal in WA, but some cities ban it. Here’s what to know (Tri-City Herald)
- Aviation students pitch (theoretical) Sea-Tac improvements to Port (The Seattle Times)
- A plus for electric buses: ‘They smell better.’ Pierce Transit gets big grant to buy more (The News Tribune)
WATER
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE
WOLVES
