I don’t do 20-mile rides. I don’t like hills. And I surely don’t like how much a car costs to run and maintain.
I read with interest the article the week before last about the use of red-light cameras in the City of Auburn, and in particular comments attributed to Mayor Pete Lewis about me.
Dear Member of Congress: You’ve got a lot to consider in this month. You’re scheduled to debate international treaties and…
Your son comes home after school, upset over being harassed and taunted in the hallway, the lunchroom and before and after school. While on the computer, your daughter is struggling to deal with nasty, explicit comments on Facebook. These situations, and ones like them, are happening in our schools and communities every day.
Bone cancer took Jimmy’s left front leg but not the dog’s zest for life.
Most people do not think about 3-2 counts or a pitcher warming up in the bullpen during this part of the year. Football season and the start of basketball dominates the sports landscape. But for most people in the area, baseball has been on their minds during the past week or so.
I recently saw a copy of a column from Mayor Pete Lewis updating the public on plans for economic developement in downtown Auburn. While I’m sure the Mayor and City Council are justifiably proud of current efforts there was an unfortunate reference that economic developement efforts from 1979 forward were “failurers … that led to a sense of loss for the next two decades.”
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.
Bill Peloza is not a war hero in a wheelchair, just a task-mastering City Councilman, tireless volunteer and Navy veteran who proudly wears the white hat.
King County’s budget crisis is real. Property values are down, and people just aren’t making as many purchases, leading to reductions to the County’s property and sales tax revenues.
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.
Three times the voters have approved initiatives requiring either a two-thirds vote of the Legislature or a majority vote of the people to raise taxes. Three times. Yet Olympia took it away this year, despite overwhelming citizen opposition.
As expected, the election season continues to rear its ugly head, producing forgettable, mudslinging moments. Try Murray vs. Rossi, Reichert…
A number of issues merit clarification in the Oct. 8 Auburn Reporter article (“Mayor: Sound Transit reneges on promise to build second garage”) as well as the City of Auburn’s related news release.
By now, I am sure you have heard the weather forecast for fall and winter will be much different than last year.
What part of “no ” do some Olympia lawmakers not understand? Three times, in 1993, 1998 and 2007, the people of Washington passed a requirement saying, “Do not raise our taxes without a two-thirds vote in the legislature.” Each time lawmakers, chaffing under voter-imposed restraints, repealed or suspended the limitation. Conveniently – for them – lawmakers only need a majority vote to repeal the two-thirds vote requirement, and they did it again earlier this year.
Looking for a new challenge and a change of pace, Dr. John Keech discovered Auburn.
Four years ago, my wife and I visited friends at Vantage on the Columbia River. This was my first exposure to Eurasian water milfoil, an aquatic, plantlike weed that thrives in freshwater lakes, rivers and other water bodies.
