Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
With the legislature down to the wire on the special session, will lawmakers continue looking busy, while pushing back the deadline (and upping the cost to the state) or can they actually agree on a budget?
The server farms that are growing up in Eastern Washington need to operate all the time. So, for a town like Quincy, that means dozens of diesel generators will ring the city.
The School Board wants to hire a new superintendent without having her or him exposed to the full force of Seattle's infamous process.
Perhaps looking out for themselves and their own future, the Mariners send a strongly worded letter to city and county leaders telling them to go somewhere else with the new arena.
Rob McKenna takes after the Democratic Speaker, who says, No, he's not the problem. (But which of them spoke with the true Seattle accent?)
