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State fined $100K a day See FINE, Page A8
Suspect facing more charges
Drought hits bottom line
The Granite Falls man is accused of leading police on a three-city rolling shootout in what his attorney says was a desperate attempt at suicide.
The punishment for lawmakers’ failure to form a school funding plan could send them into a fourth special session. Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers learned Thursday that the penalty for not turning in a homework assignment to the state Supreme Court is $100,000 a day.
That’s the fine imposed unanimously by justices frustrated by lawmakers’ failure to complete one task: deliver them a plan showing how, by a 2018 deadline, the state will meet its public school funding responsibilities. “Given the gravity of the
up nearly $15 million in fines by the start of 2016 regular session. Gov. Jay Inslee said he will meet with legislative leaders Monday “to begin the necessary and difficult work before us.” “There is much that needs to be done before a special session can be called,” he said in a statement.
Lack of rain drives up businesses’ costs, cuts into revenue
company’s co-owner. The summer slowdown in landscaping work he usually sees has been twice as bad this year, he said. In the past three weeks, Washington Lawns has only picked up two new clients. Last year, it was adding 10 or 15 clients every three weeks, he said. “If I had started this year as a landscaper, I would have gone broke,” Ventura said. The 3-year-old company grosses about half a million dollars a year, and has eight employees. See DROUGHT, Page A2
See CHARGES, Page A8
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EVERETT — Businesses across Snohomish County are feeling the burn from this summer’s parched weather. The statewide drought is driving up costs for some and cutting revenue for others. Some businesses are being squeezed on both ends. This summer has seen record lows for rain, leaving grass lawns burnt brown. Washington Lawns has seen new work dry up, said Zak Ventura, the Everett landscaping
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MARYSVILLE — A Granite Falls man accused of opening fire on police in October is facing more legal troubles. Prosecutors last year charged Hans Hansen with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and four other felonies for a rolling shootout that spanned three cities and injured Marysville police Sgt. Jim Maples. Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Ed Stemler last month tacked on additional assault and drive-by shooting charges. Hansen faces decades behind bars if he is convicted of the 11 felonies. The 44-year-old has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Jon Scott, told The Herald that Hansen wasn’t targeting police officers. At the time, his client was facing significant financial and health problems, Scott said. “He was a desperate, depressed, suicidal guy,” the public defender said. “His intent, as he expressed it, was to have (police) kill him.” Hansen has no prior criminal history. The case was assigned to Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Ellen Fair. In a hearing this week, the judge agreed to continue the trial to October. Hansen is being held without bail. The Snohomish County native told detectives that on Oct. 15 he loaded his pickup truck with two AK-47 rifles, an AR-15, a shotgun, a .40-caliber handgun and several other firearms. He explained that his plan was to anger as many people as he could until someone shot him. Hansen allegedly first shot up a Granite Falls building belonging to a man whom he blamed for his business getting evicted. Emergency dispatchers then received word that someone had shot up a police car outside the Granite Falls Police station. Rounds also hit the building. Minutes later the Lake Stevens Police station took gunfire. Patrol cars and other vehicles parked outside were struck.
Eugene Boone, chief information officer at Washington Lawns, finds himself behind a wheelbarrow and shovel Wednesday, helping out on a landscaping job in Lake Stevens, while Michael “The Rock” Roberts (bottom right) installs rock and bark mixture throughout the large yard.
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Pay up, frog Can you tell me how to get ‘Sesame Street’ on my TV? The makers of “Sesame Street,” the children’s television show that has run on PBS for 45 years, announced that it has a new deal that gives HBO initial broadcast rights for new shows, with PBS getting the shows nine Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B8
months later for free. The move frees up funding for the viewer-supported public network (Page A2). Considering the recent news of their breakup, I guess Kermit the Frog owes more in alimony to Miss Piggy than we first thought. Hot enough for you? The warm dry weather in recent
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months is resulting in lost business and work for some and increased costs for others. Landscape businesses and loggers have lost work, for example (above). But it’s meant full employment for climate-change deniers who have had to work overtime to convince everyone else that this is perfectly normal. Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . .A8
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1900, the U.S. Marines entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion (Today in History, Page D6). With the rebellion crushed, all were again free to wear briefs. (Though the Marines, of course, went commando.)
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state’s ongoing violation of its constitutional obligation to amply provide for public education, and in light of the need for expeditious action, the time has come for the court to impose sanctions,” wrote Chief Justice Barbara Madsen in an 11-page order issued Thursday. The action could propel lawmakers into a fourth special session to do what the court wants. If they don’t, they’ll rack
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