Energy efficient homes are good for homeowners, the economy and the environment.
Probably the three largest problems preventing the changes that need to be made in how we use our land are the environmentalists, the developers, and the financiers, in no particular order.
Following the Civil War, the term “soldier’s heart” was used to describe the mental and emotional anguish experienced by veterans. During World War I, they called it “shell shock,” and later, “battle fatigue.”
Thank heavens for the charitable, the big of heart and the kind of spirit. They continue to step up, taking the place of a government that has abandoned its most basic responsibilities to people.
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.
One of the things that has long annoyed me about political coverage in the traditional media is the careless, unsophisticated way that journalists – and many pundits who appear as guests on news shows – classify people according to their political views.
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.
Washington state is pushing hard to improve our schools and, just recently, Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law major education reforms.
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.
Paying lip service is a criticism sometimes leveled at governments of all sizes. While the Sammamish council certainly is fond of talking a good game when it comes to the young ‘uns, the time has come to see if they can walk the walk.
Ed – In January of this year, 15 year-old Massachusetts school girl Phoebe Prince committed suicide after months of bullying from peers at school. According to prosecutors, she was harassed verbally, physically and via social media sites, by a group of students. Following an incident in which a student threw a can at her from a passing car, Phoebe walked home and hanged herself in the stairwell of her family apartment.
The furor over the national National Health Care Reform Act has got to stop. Next-to-nothing has been implemented yet and parts of the bill are being challenged by attorney generals from a number of states. Things are getting out of hand.
Next time you are headed to Fred Meyer or Target or QFC, for bicycle or a new CD or a pound of sausages, consider whether there isn’t a locally-owned business you could get it from instead. I promise you, you’ll feel good about your investment in the city.
After a year of fierce debate and wrangling, Congress has finally done something that many of the people who cover politics for a living in New York and Washington, D.C. have been telling the country had little chance of happening: it sent the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act to President Obama’s desk to be signed into law.
So if we can assume that what people gain is the ability to communicate small pieces of information instantly and regularly, then the question is “what do we lose?”
For much of our state’s recent political history, colorful and exciting top-of-the-ticket races have been a staple of the electoral landscape.
Over the last few days, each Issaquah and Sammamish residence should have received a census form in the mail.
We urge you not to ignore it; the government does too. In fact, participation isn’t just important it’s mandatory.
Candy isn’t food and it doesn’t provide nutrition. Washington lawmakers should eliminate the sales tax exemption and return the $44 million dollars in revenue our state loses every year to this tax break.
President Obama has made it clear that he wants to erase the Bush-era tax cuts for the highest earners in the country, even as he preserves the tax cuts for middle- and working-class Americans.
There is something that the riotous and disorderly and passionate expression of music, and art too for that matter, contributes that just can’t be replicated.
