“The surgery was a success. We removed a large, cancerous tumor. Osama Bin Laden is dead.”
On Sunday morning, and again Monday, we are in our home, windows and doors closed. Pacific Raceways is louder at our home than ever before.
As a resident in Southeast King County and the executive director of an organization preserving land in rural southeast King County, I am very aware that when it comes to getting projects funded, southeast King County is a challenge. The area has traditionally been under funded compared the rest of King County.
Last fall, voters overwhelmingly approved Initiative 1053 (I-1053), which requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to approve tax increases. Voters in the 30th Legislative District approved I-1053 by more than 66 percent.
All of us in the Legislature are well aware of the challenges facing families in this difficult economy. As citizens have tightened their belts to live within their income, the message they sent in November is they believe government should be doing the same.
I have been actively involved in environmental stewardship since 1990 when I became a watershed educator with Washington State Cooperative Extension. Since that time, I have been involved in several planting projects in the Green/Duwamish watershed, from Enumclaw to the turning basin in the Duwamish.
Many people are calling this an “off election year” and not thinking about politics or who is running for office. But don’t forget, all politics is local, and 2011 is a year where hundreds of city and county council, school board, fire district and water district seats are on the ballot.
To encourage Seattle-area residents to take part in NHDD and start these important conversations with their families, Dr. Eric Troyer, has written the bylined article below for consideration.
Five seconds, that’s all it takes for tragedy to shake a child’s world. Tara Mitchell knows all about that, knows, too, the sting of pain she cannot forget.
Have you ever known someone who was always down on their luck and expecting the worst?
The readers have spoken, and a slight majority of them came up smelling pansies.
Over the past 48 hours many people have contacted the City of Pacific and other entities concerning fears of radiation exposure from the Japanese nuclear plants. I was asked to write this to help calm those fears and empower our citizens with credible information.
We have all watched in horror at the news out of Japan following their massive earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis.
A bill in Olympia, HB 1609, would end the practice of automatically firing the newest and youngest teachers first when Washington school districts implement layoffs. Under the bill, school administrators would be required to consider teacher performance, not just seniority, before letting a teacher go. The introductory language of the bill lays out its intent: “There is an urgent need to conduct layoffs in a way that retains the most effective teachers.”
On March 20, Sound Transit will officially inaugurate service at its new Mountlake Terrace highway station at 236th Street Southwest in Snohomish County.
We’ve heard about the massive cutbacks in the federal budget and even perhaps the end of the national health plan. The stimulus money was sent to the state, and that money is gone. We are still left with a huge state deficit that will demand larger cuts than have been seen in generations.
More than 1,500 salmon were seen spawning in Coho Creek on the Tulalip Tribes’ reservation last fall. Pretty good considering 10 years ago, the creek was nothing but a drainage ditch in the Quilceda Creek watershed.
Abandoned properties can have a detrimental impact on the general welfare of a community. The City of Auburn is committed to working with residents to minimize impacts to neighborhoods from abandoned properties. Neighbors and neighborhoods should look to the City as a partner in addressing these impacts.
Much like the swell of copper wire theft that hit our state a few years ago due to the rising…
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.
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