Washington News Links

• Cameras help Lakewood police track stolen cars (Tacoma News Tribune, August 30, 2009)
• Talking cameras surprise taggers (Tri-City Herald, August 29, 2009)
• With budget cuts, layoffs, Bellingham parks and library services decrease (Bellingham Herald, August 28, 2009)
• County studies milfoil's effects on swimmers (Tri-City Herald, August 27, 2009)
• Richland moves toward development funding (Tri-City Herald, August 26, 2009)
• Kitsap cities won't buy local for jail service (Port Orchard Independent, August 21, 2009)
• Property-tax hike to be on November ballot (Islands Sounder, August 18, 2009)
• King County cities break ground on regional jail; completion slated for July 2011 (Federal Way Mirror, August 11, 2009)
• Lacey to keep its red-light cameras (The Olympian, August 11, 2009)
• Seattle deploys new system to contain tree roots (Seattle PI, August 11, 2009)
• Auburn puts crime stats online (Tacoma News Tribune, August 10, 2009)
• Elected mayor proposal will appear on November ballot (Federal Way Mirror, August 10, 2009)
• Mid-Columbia elections offices put pamphlets online (Tri-City Herald, August 8, 2009)
• Bellingham prepares to lay off more city workers (Bellingham Herald, August 7, 2009)
• Federal Way will keep municipal court (Federal Way Mirror, August 6, 2009)
• Park transfer criteria to be considered (Tri-City Herald, August 4, 2009)
• Elected mayor initiative rises from the ashes in Federal Way (Federal Way Mirror, August 4, 2009)
• Seattle's tree-cutting rules to get more strict; advocates hoped for more (Seattle Times, August 4, 2009)
• Missionaries sue over Puyallup's solicitation ban (Tacoma News Tribune, August 4, 2009)
• Tacoma city jobs might go unfilled (Tacoma News Tribune, August 3, 2009)
• Pierce County merges code agencies (Tacoma News Tribune, August 2, 2009)