Long before discovering stardom on the football field, young Richard Thomas found trouble as a youth. Growing up in a…
I recently returned from a meeting of mayors across the United States. Cities like New York and Miami, Oklahoma City and Fort Worth Indiana all sit in the same rooms, and we talk about our problems. We all have problems with jobs and streets, sewers and water, and we all exchange and borrow the best ideas and practices from each other.
Liberals and conservatives agreed on one thing during the health care debate: the cost of health care in the United States is not sustainable. Last year we spent $2.2 trillion, or 17 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product (GDP), on health care. Without some type of reform that number will rise to an unrealistic 30% of GDP by 2030. From an economic standpoint, this could never happen.
The tearful mother’s urgent call for help rang loudly to Melissa Monroe. She struggled to grasp such grief and pain
The economy in the City of Pacific is slowly improving.
For inspiration, Katherine Garbe turns to her little sister, a fun-loving kid who already has overcome considerable odds in her precious life.
Memorial Day became a national day of remembrance, thanks to the efforts of wives and mothers of fallen soldiers.
I returned to Green River Community College to honor retiring President Richard Rutkowski on Wednesday. He holds a special kind of tenure that has been rightly renewed, again and again, by the GRCC Board of Trustees.
Four members of the County Council are balking at putting a sales tax boost on the August ballot.
For graffiti artists, the writing is on the wall.
Responding to a widespread community problem, the Auburn Police Department and City officials are putting graffiti “taggers” back to work – not with a defacing can of spray paint, but with a paint roller.
Washington has been a leader in early learning for years. The Department of Early Learning provides excellent preschool for many low-income children through the Early Learning Childhood Assistance Program. And the statewide Early Learning Advisory Council has also contributed greatly to the state’s success in this policy area.
It seems like only yesteryear that we said goodbye to classmates, teachers, Principal McCurdy and the beautiful red brick building on Main Street that was our Auburn High School.
With Democrats very much in control in Olympia, and Republicans on the sidelines, one would expect the Legislature to close this year’s looming $2.8 billion budget gap with orderly dispatch.
The 2009-11 supplemental budget recently enacted by the state Legislature, which increases taxes by $800 million, does not deal a fatal blow to any particular industry. Instead, legislators this year decided on the “death by a thousand cuts” approach to raising taxes. Unfortunately, much of the tax increase falls directly on consumers and the business community, big and small.
As the daughter of a disabled World War II veteran, I grew up knowing the sacrifice our veterans and their families make for our country firsthand. And today, those who have served us in Iraq and Afghanistan are returning from service to a particularly difficult job market. These brave men and women were the first to stand up and say, “I want to serve,” but they are often times the last to find employment when they return home.
Effective programming for special-needs students is nothing new to the Auburn School District. But now the learning community has brought something new to its educational landscape with one TAP of ingenuity.
King County may ask us to OK a sales tax hike to pay for public safety. It’s always interesting that we’re never asked to pay more taxes to keep county office assistants, public relations departments or other miscellaneous staff on the payroll in tough times. It’s always public safety.
Forty years ago, when the first Earth Day was organized to draw attention to the serious environmental problems created by decades of thoughtless development and industrialization, few Americans realized the extent to which we had deforested our wild places, strip mined our mountains, and carelessly polluted our air and water.
