Politics
Midday Scan: Election day tidbits; liberating school newspapers; Occupying the city council's brains.
Are elections a secret strategy for boosting local spending and employment? Snohomish County leads the way.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
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Environment
Midday Scan: Geezers rule, initiatives lie, salmon ail, and Rooney rants
Warning: the following survey contains material not suitable for the elderly.
Midday Scan: Pacific garbage heap hits home, the capital gains tax silver bullet, Snohomish misspending
Just when you thought Snohomish County politics couldn't get any worse . . . they did. Can a capital gains tax save Washington? The West Coast braces for 2,000 miles of tsunami debris.
Midday Scan: The impotent candidate, Gregoire coddles corporations, salmon anemia gets serious
Salmon-anemia? Joel Connelly blames Canada; time for Gregoire to get real about revenue; Darcy Burner joins a crowded field; a police chief mayor in Portlandia?; the unlikely Arizona locavore.
Midday scan Wednesday: pot reform money; racing a fish virus; hopes in job darkness.
Respectable money goes to marijuana (the initiative campaign, not the drug); Joel Connelly warns about that salmon virus; the 520 bridge helps Aberdeen's economy.