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Trying to maintain or improve state ferry service for routes connecting Kitsap County to the east side of Puget Sound…
Ballots will soon arrive for the Feb. 3 South Kitsap School District (SKSD) maintenance-and-operations excess levy election.
To get your minds off your household budgets, watch what our local and state government budget deliberations involve — and hope for some useful “myth busting.”
For the first time in a generation, we’re apparently experiencing a significant economic recession.
If government could be run more like a business, what would our elected officials do differently?
Now that the South Kitsap School District board of directors has adopted a resolution to put an excess levy measure on the ballot for next February’s election, it’s time for the voters to consider whether to approve or reject the ballot proposition.
At times like this, many of us begin to notice just how little we know about the inner workings of our nation’s economy.
At the planning stage of an economic development project, the risk of financial loss as a result of less than the anticipated return requires an answer to a straightforward question: “What would we do then?”
We’re approaching the point at which we may need to agree on the meaning of the words “left behind” in the federal law known as “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB).
For the first time since the state constitution was amended to allow approval by a simple majority of voters, the South Kitsap School District is preparing to place a maintenance and operations levy proposition on the ballot.
Planning for the consolidation of local fire and emergency medical services into a “West Sound Regional Fire and Rescue” authority may illustrate the potential advantages and disadvantages of reducing the number of local agencies.
For years now, “growth management” has seemed to involve efforts to control land use to restrict real estate development in some areas and hope for economic development in others.
What happens when there is little growth to be managed by government?
Many people had supposed that completion of the Tacoma Narrows bridge project would spur population and economic growth in South Kitsap. Rush-hour traffic congestion on the old bridge was an obvious impediment to growth.
The rising costs of energy may give us a preview of how things will be when the heavy hand of government intrudes even more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming fears.
Sometimes it seems that South Kitsap — Port Orchard in particular – is one step behind the competition in — trying to obtain economic development funding.
Our county commissioners have appointed a budget advisory committee to consider long-term trends in spending and revenue and to recommend particular policies that ought to be followed.
In choosing among candidates for the legislature and county commissioner, on what issues should residents of South Kitsap focus their attention?
Several candidates have mentioned some issues they believe are important and have indicated that they want to hear from people in the community.
