1. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna says charter schools, on the ballot in November, would "clearly" be constitutional, the Spokane Spokesman-Review  reports.

2. Two former state legislators, Toby Nixon and (lieutenant governor candidate) Bill Finkbeiner, are proposing a Mike-O'Brien-style ban on "rollover" campaign accounts, the Tacoma News Tribune  reports.

3. Also in the News Tribune: Gay marriage opponents still can't get it right when it comes to soliciting donations from churchgoers, according to the state's Public Disclosure Commission.

4.  Oh good Lord: The Columbian parrots one of the oldest fictions about HOV lanes: That they "sit empty" and "force regular commuters" to sit in traffic.  (Short course in traffic engineering: If you open HOV lanes to everyone, they fill up. More here .)

5.  On the heels of the city council's approval of the Yesler Terrace redevelopment, KPLU asks : How well have the Seattle Housing Authority's other mixed-income developments worked out so far?

6.  Dissenting views on Tim Eyman's I-1185, imposing a two-thirds requirement for the legislature to raise taxes, from the confusingly named pair of organizations: The (right-leaning) Washington Policy Center and the (left-leaning) Washington Budget and Policy Center.