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  Pasco town hall asks Walsh about education

  PASCO -- Education was at the top of constituents' minds at a town hall meeting with 16th District Reps. Maureen Walsh and Terry Nealey in Pasco on Friday night.

  Most of the people in the audience of about two dozen appeared to be teachers or connected to school districts, with several people wearing red Washington Education Association T-shirts.

  They talked about the inability to teach anything that isn't on standardized tests such as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning.

• Nealey, Walsh planning 2 town hall meetings

  Nealey, Walsh planning 2 town hall meetings

  Rep. Terry Nealey, R-Dayton, and Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, will hold two town hall meetings next week.

  The first is at 7 p.m. Friday in the Bryron Gjerde Center at Columbia Basin College in Pasco.

  The second is a coffeehouse roundtable meeting starting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Country Cupboard, 330 E. Main St., Dayton.

• Lineup set for Aug. 7 Mid-Columbia primary election

  Lineup set for Aug. 7 Mid-Columbia primary election

  With the filing period having closed Friday, a handful of Mid-Columbia races appear headed to the primary ballot.

  Washington has a "top two" primary system in which the top two vote-getters in the primary go to a run-off in the general election, regardless of party affiliation.

  There are no party nominations, and only races with three or more candidates are voted in the Aug. 7 primary.

• Budget to pay for 2 Pasco rail projects

  Budget to pay for 2 Pasco rail projects

  Pasco's Heritage Industrial Center sson may have a new tenant now that the city can guarantee railway access.

  The project is one of two rail projects in Pasco that will be finished thanks to $3.2 million the state Legislature dedicated in the capital budget that passed early Wednesday.

  Pasco City Manager Gary Crutchfield said a company that needs rail access told the city earlier this week that the Heritage Industrial Center is on its short list.

• Benton GOP officials want to apologize to those shut out of caucuses

  Benton GOP officials want to apologize to those shut out of caucuses

  Local Republican precinct officers are hoping people who were shut out of Saturday's GOP caucuses in Kennewick will contact them.

  Leanne Minter, a volunteer in her local Kennewick precinct, said the precinct officers -- basically neighborhood leaders -- are trying to find out who couldn't get into the caucuses so that they can extend personal apologies.

  Hundreds of people were turned away from the Benton County pooled caucuses at the Three Rivers Convention Center on Saturday when it became apparent to organizers they lacked the volunteers, computers and space to get everyone in.