HB 1115, which “provides the minimum employment standards for a paraeducators” passed both chambers yesterday. The bill will head to Gov. Inslee to be signed and then will require paraeducators to gain certification for employment and for the “professional educator standards board to design and implement a training program,” for paraeducators.

Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn to challenge incumbent Mayor Ed Murray. McGinn announced his plans because he is worried Seattle living is getting too expensive and becoming “an enclave for the wealthy.” McGinn asserted, “we can’t let this city become a San Francisco… it’s harder and harder to be able to afford to live here.”

22 miles of Northbound I-5 start renovations this week. They will take three years to complete – but the renovations come 25 years after they were supposed to be made. The road was originally made to last just 25 years but has been in use for 50. With 200,000+ vehicles using I-5 every day, traffic is about to turn into even more of a nightmare in Seattle.

“Hundreds of Engineering employees,” at Boeing will be laid off this week. Despite around 1,800 voluntary buyouts earlier this year, vice president of engineering at Boeing, John Hamilton, said, “we need to reduce our employment level further.”

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers holding small-group discussions in Spokane. “I want to set it up to have constructive conversations,” she said of the “Coffee with Cathy” events she has been holding, and intends to hold more with constituents from both sides of the aisle.

Sandvik Special Metals in Finley has agreed to a pay $650,000 after it was discovered that they were discharging more ammonia into the Columbia River than their water pollution permit allowed. In contrast, Seattle’s West Point Water Treatment Plant dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Sound and has yet to be fined.

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