A battle is brewing in Olympia, where a state lawmaker is going to court to make it easier to raise taxes. Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown (D-Spokane) is asking the Washington Supreme Court to invalidate a law that could stand in the way of tax increases in 2009.
Many Kitsap residents have come to question the county’s continued participation in the Puget Sound Regional Council, particularly in light of that organization’s mission statement, “Vision 2040,” which is a region-wide, long-range, land-use planning policy.
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Heather Meadows was only 20 years old when her life was cut short by a drunk driver in 2005.
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Many Kitsap residents have come to question the county’s continued participation in the Puget Sound Regional Council, particularly in light of that organization’s mission statement, “Vision 2040,” which is a region-wide, long-range, land-use planning policy.
Torrens Talk
Please, by all means, don’t let a little thing like driving get in the way of your phone conversation.
This the third in a series of guest columns dealing with Puget Sound Regional Council’s (PSRC) Vision 2040, a region-wide, long-range, land-use planning policy.
Heather Meadows was only 20 years old when her life was cut short by a drunk driver in 2005.
Four middle-aged men eyeing the open 35th District House seat brought their sales pitches to the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs and Issues the other day, stressing “not one of us is a bad guy” and promising a “clean, solid, good campaign.”
The article in April started this way: “…(Aberdeen) was hemorrhaging jobs. Mother Jones tells it like this: ‘Families were breaking up and moving out. There were suicides. It was really a hard time.’”
Ugh. There you are, sitting at your desk. It’s mid-morning, and that 10:30 a.m. hunger pain hits. You try to ignore it … maybe it will go away. But it’s getting more persistent and insistent. “Feed me,” your stomach is screaming. So you remember that bag of almonds in your desk, or maybe the yogurt you brought with your lunch yesterday that spent the night in the office refrigerator.
Voters complain more about judicial races than any of the others on the ballot because they usually know little or nothing about the people they’re voting on, other than how long it’s been since they cracked the law books.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Federal Way resident Angie Vogt takes issue with Initiative 1000 — the assisted suicide measure that will appear on Washington’s November general election ballot.
FAITHFUL LIVING Everyone wants Love to follow them down their road; Where is it that Love wants to go? —…
health providers and insurers so corporations would pay what people are worth, wages that allow workers to support their families.
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