1. The state Public Disclosure Commission is looking into a complaint that initiative hawker Tim Eyman illegally used part of the money from his two-thirds-vote-to-raise taxes initiative, I-1185, to boost another initiative, I-517, which would increase the amount of time available to collect signatures.

The Tacoma News Tribune and The Stranger have reports on the complaint.

2. The Seattle City Council wants to restrict medical-marijuana businesses to areas outside residential neighborhoods and tourist areas like Pike Place Market, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports .

3.  So much for the state highway department’s traffic forecasts: Contrary state predictions that tolling on the 520 bridge would have little effect on the number of drivers who use it to cross Lake Washington, traffic has plummeted, Sightline reports. So why did we need to expand the bridge to six lanes, again?

4. The Columbian offers the arguments for and against a new sales tax to pay to operate and maintain light rail across the proposed new Columbia River Crossing Bridge (plus bus rapid transit and other improvements in and around Vancouver). ...

5. And Lawyers Guns and Money argues that RapidRide bus rapid transit service to Ballard, which hasn't even opened yet, is already a failure.