The Seattle Star

Governor Gregoire’s adds to her ambitious lame duck session with a proposal that includes a 10-year infrastructure repair bill, an increase in sales taxes, and massive education reform. Missing from the agenda: a mandate for State Legislature to enact it, or a proposal to send it to the public. [Seattle Times]

A pastor from the New Covenant Christian Center in Tukwilla pleads guilty to charges that he had bilked his constituents out of $1.6million dollars in a Ponzi Scheme that’s been operating since 2003. [Seattle PI]

The South Seattle Beacon, South Seattle’s only print newspaper for nearly a century, has closed up shop and plans to re-open as an online publication — expanding its coverage to include a number of neighborhoods adjacent to the Downtown corridor. [KOMO]

Rather than attempt to fix the mess that our school districts find themselves in, a group of politicians are proposing to resuscitate charter schools, an idea that’s failed to capture the imagination of Washington voters three times now. [KIRO]

Yet another source claiming that the Seattle Police Department isn’t doing all that it could be doing steps forward. [Publicola]