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Surgeon general calls for cancer warnings on alcohol seattletimes.com/nation-world/s… via The Seattle Times

Disaster dogged Boeing in 2024. Can it turn around in 2025? The panel blowout a year ago was not a fluke. Systemic factory issues contributed greatly Boeing must now claw back its reputation, public trust and regulatory standing by ⁦Lauren Rosenblatt⁩ seattletimes.com/business/boein…

Westneat: The new report on homelessness shows a catastrophe for WA seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t… via The Seattle Times

Nick Rolovich loses lawsuit vs. WSU after being fired for refusing COVID vaccine seattletimes.com/sports/wsu-cou… via The Seattle Times

WA has a different fire season & different risks but we are lucky that Reps. Kretz and Springer worked aggressively w Lands Commissioner Franz to increase funding for forest treatments and she aggressively pre-positions firefighting people and equipment for immediate attack.

NEW: Cle Elum considers bankruptcy amid a $22m debt in dispute with housing developer seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

NEW: Ferguson opposes wealth tax, calls for spending cuts, but boost for K-12 (w. Shauna Sowersby) #waleg seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

King County assessor John Wilson, who is running for county executive, was accused of stalking, harassment (via David Gutman) seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

🚨 Trump’s White House OMB rescinds federal aid freeze.

* Trump OMB puts out 2 page memo freezing all grants * Chaos, panic ensues * OMB puts out 1.5 page Q&A trying to clarify. * More confusion * Congressional Republicans defend it all after Dems go off. * WH blames media for confusion * OMB puts out one line memo rescinding freeze

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives. The ruling came hours before the deadline for workers to apply for the deferred resignation program. apnews.com/article/buyout…

In a departure for WA governors, Ferguson avoids news conferences (w. Shauna Sowersby) #waleg seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

WA was one of the states that filed this lawsuit.

Great day for shady pols: Trump pardons Blagojevich; orders end to corruption probe of NYC mayor Eric Adams; guts whistleblower office & halts enforcement of law barring bribery of foreign officials.

Westneat: There’s not much to say, Canada, except: Sorry seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

This "large scale social deception" contract was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years

Folks, it’s a #waleg rhyme off on rent law