#Ballot measure

The Kitsap Public Utility District board placed a Nov. 3 ballot measure asking voters for legal authority to provide electric service, after months of rate pressure under Puget Sound Energy. Approval would enable a feasibility study, not an immediate takeover.

An initiative signer and the repeal campaign itself have both sued over 15 words the state attached to Washington's I-645 income tax repeal, with a hearing set for Aug. 7.