Foreclosure notices stay with print papers

They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of publication in their publications.

The bill had been introduced Thursday, Jan. 26, by Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-Lake Stevens, and was scheduled for a hearing Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Hobbs’ committee on financial institutions, housing and finance. Hobbs took the bill off the calendar Tuesday morning and his staff said it would not be rescheduled.