ACLU members are working with lawmakers on a new bill to address discipline in school, proposing a law they say will, “lay out the purpose of discipline as something to help students achieve personal and academic success. And also to keep students in the classroom as much as possible.”

“The Longview Millennium project brings substantial benefits to Longview… offers Japan a sound solution to its pressing energy-security challenges.” As trade partners with Japan, both Longview and the State of Washington stand to gain with the Millennium terminal in Longview coal project. (Read more here)

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes wants the city to join a lawsuit that would prevent citizens from being able to vote on an initiative to ban heroin injection sites. Holmes is encouraging the city to join a lawsuit put forth by a group that has sued to block Initiative 27 – which would ban heroin injection sites – from being put before voters.

Snohomish County ran out of free needle clean-up kits after offering them for residents and business owners so that citizens could help clean up needles they found around their businesses and neighborhoods. The amount of dirty needles found in and around public areas and neighborhoods has increased as of late in Snohomish County.

Sex offenders living on McNeil Island filed a federal lawsuit over water purity. Around 200 of the people living in the Special Commitment Center are complaining that the water is making them sick, giving them rashes and even causing deaths. Reports from the Dept. of Health show that the water treatment facility on the island has been “on the verge of failure” since 2013.

Seattle’s Dept. of Transportation wants $177 million more for their streetcar projects. “The financial assumptions are simply unrealistic based on our history with the streetcar,” City Councilmember Lisa Herbold said. “I don’t want a situation where we don’t meet these projections and the result is we end up seeing bus-service hours cut to pay for any shortfall.”

Seattle Interim Mayor Tim Burgess has released budget highlights for the city, including proposed legislation to create a retirement savings plan for city workers, increase fire department funding and more. (Read more here)

Benton County Sheriff’s Office is offering a five-week citizens academy, opening their doors for between 15 and 20 people to enroll in a five-week course that has two-hour classes twice a week for more information on law enforcement process and procedures.

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