On March 20, Sound Transit will officially inaugurate service at its new Mountlake Terrace highway station at 236th Street Southwest in Snohomish County.
About a month ago, the 2011 regular session of the Legislature convened in Olympia. As this session is taking place in an odd-year, the principal item of business will be to come up with a budget for the next biennium.
Defying the conventional wisdom that they can’t accomplish anything significant during the last few weeks of an even-numbered year, lawmakers in our nation’s capital recently concluded a remarkable period of post-election activity, which culminated with the approval of several important legislative priorities that had previously been stalled.
Every year, during the final weeks before January rolls around again, retailers and automakers go to great lengths to persuade us to buy as much stuff as our credit cards will possibly allow.
Demonstrating their frustration with the slow pace of the economic recovery, voters across Washington State and America unwittingly chose legislative gridlock on Tuesday by opting to punish the party currently in power and rewarding the party that caused the mess, guaranteeing both an ideological and a partisan showdown over the future direction of the country.
The final hours of the 2010 midterms are upon us. As field teams rev up their get-out-the-vote efforts for their candidates, operatives working for both sides have taken the air war in Washington State to new lows, particularly in the Senate contest, which pits Patty Murray against Dino Rossi.