Everett Daily Herald, July 10, 2014

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Inslee’s water-quality balancing act Gov. Jay Inslee’s ‘creative approach’: Raise the so-called fish-consumption rate and give cities and businesses extra time to comply with new standards. By Jerry Cornfield

deemed a “creative approach” to imposing tougher water quality standards and removing toxic chemicals from everyday products without hurting businesses

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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday unveiled what he

or costing consumers. At the center of his plan is a significant increase in a so-called fish-consumption rate that is used to set those anti-pollution standards. Critics complain that the change will require that water discharged into streams, rivers and Puget Sound is cleaner than existing technology can achieve.

As an olive branch, the governor proposed expanding the authority of the Department of Ecology to give cities and corporations years of extra time to upgrade sewage treatment plants and manufacturing facilities to comply. And Inslee said he will ask lawmakers to approve a bill in 2015

‘A major game changer’ Air New Zealand dubs its new 787-9 ‘the perfect aircraft for our network’

that will let that agency ban use of products containing toxic chemicals if toxic-free alternatives exist. “These tougher standards ... will demand more of local government and industry. But I’m confident that these can be done without damage to our See WATER, Page A6

Koster defining new role in county As Snohomish County’s new ombudsman, John Koster has fielded 64 complaints while still drafting procedures for his office. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

of the airplane was touched when we did the Dash 9.” It is 20 feet longer than the 787-8 and holds about 280 passengers in three seat classes, about 40 more than the smaller model. Many of the 787-9 design changes and improvements were fed back into the earlier

EVERETT — The announcement about Snohomish County’s new ombudsman was barely out when requests for help started trickling in. John Koster in December had accepted the role as an in-house, good-government watchdog after term limits forced him to leave his County Council job of 12 years. The first order of business: figuring out what an ombudsman is supposed to do when people call to report problems with county government. “Citizens are our customers,” Koster said. “There’s somewhere to go if they don’t think they were treated fairly.” Defining how that should work in real life required some thought. Before Koster had time to draft procedures, people started calling for help. As of this week, draft procedures for the office were still awaiting formal approval — so technically, he’s not yet fully open for business. Six months in, though, Koster has fielded 64 complaints. The most common problems, by far, involve land use and other planning issues. They accounted for more than 40 percent of the total. Most callers are either stuck in

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EVERETT — Even commercial jetliners have a new-airplane smell. A crisp, clean scent reminiscent of new leather. That was how the interior of Air New Zealand’s new 787-9 Dreamliner, the first of its kind, smelled Wednesday. The plane

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was parked at Boeing’s delivery center at Paine Field near the company’s Everett plant, ready for delivery. Delays dogged development of the Dreamliner series’ first model, the 787-8, but it has gone relatively smoothly for the latest version, which Boeing executives and workers simply call the Dash 9.

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The company met its goal to deliver the first airplane by mid-year 2014 on paper. Air New Zealand signed on the dotted line on June 30, but the airline didn’t get the keys from Boeing until this week. The 787-9 is a major overhaul of the first model, said Mark Jenks, vice president of 787-9 development. “A very large part

Gone to pot The grass is always greener: With the opening of recreational marijuana stores in Vancouver, Washington, Portland residents are making the short trip across the border. (Page A6). In response, the American Red Cross has set up hipster refugee camps in Vancouver Dear Abby. . . .D5 Good Life . . . .D1

and started programs to repatriate pot smokers to Portland. Contented cows: A filmmaker is following cows in Skagit County for a documentary about the dairy industry, even strapping a video camera to the head of a cow (Page B1). Word of the comical scene

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spread quickly in the barn, with other cows laughing so hard that milk came out of their noses. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1509, theologian John Calvin, a leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in France (Today in History, Page A2). Opinion. . . . .A11 Sports . . . . . . . C1

During Calvin’s childhood, French newspapers carried a cartoon of Calvin’s daily exploits — sledding down hills, fighting space monsters and pestering a girl named Susie — all while accompanied by his stuffed tiger whom Calvin imagined to be political philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

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Megan Singleton, a New Zealand-based travel blogger, takes a self portrait Wednesday at Boeing’s Paine Field delivery center in front of one of the Rolls Royce engines that power Air New Zealand’s newly delivered 787-9. Go to www.HeraldNet.com for a gallery of photos from the event.

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