In a surprise announcement that’s only heightened speculation about her mental status, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said over the July 4 weekend that she’s leaving the job.
As lawmakers continue to debate solutions to revive our ailing economy, a pillar of recovery that must not be forgotten is the vital role free trade plays in growing our economy and creating jobs.
Voting shouldn’t be hard. That simple four word sentence is a complaint I repeatedly hear from people when I ask them about participating in our state and our country’s democratic process.
There’s this great sandwich place a few blocks from my office where I go a couple of times a week. You probably know it – it’s one of those big chain places that I try to avoid when I can, but hey, they make a great feed.
Most people experience some frustration with the Puget Sound region’s sluggish response to its transportation problems. Recently, both voters and leaders have been split on whether to invest in roads or in transit.
The NRA’s well-financed and fervent lobbying continues to guarantee liberal access to not just sporting rifles, but semi-automatic assault rifles and handguns, which are made regularly available to children, felons, and people with mental illnesses.
This November, voters in King County have a very important choice to make: Who should succeed Ron Sims as the Executive of one of the largest counties in the United States?
Good news for state Auditor Brian Sonntag — and the rest of us, too.
Gov. Chris Gregoire did the right thing last Tuesday and restored $29 million to Sonntag’s budget to pay for performance audits.
In these days of preparing for a swine flu epidemic, do you remember always to cover your coughs and sneezes, wash your hands and stock up on hand sanitizer? Then the messages from Public Health officials have succeeded!
Gregoire will do the right thing, won’t she?
The press around the state has been on Gov. Chris Gregoire’s case recently.
The story “Supplies running low at food banks, chairites” in The Reporter, May 8, 2009, incorrectly stated that charities such as the Eastside Baby Corner (EBC) and Issaquah Food Bank (IFB) “receive no government funding”.
The budget axe fell hard in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), but it did not hit any of the 1,000-plus teachers working in the district.
When voters approved extending Sound Transit’s system last November, most people probably thought the controversial battle over light rail on the Eastside was over.
Dr. Judy Featherstone, FAAFP, is the Medical Director of HealthPoint, which has provided medical and dental care, as well as complementary and alternative services, at 12 King County locations for 38 years.
My first look at the functioning of the American political machine up close and personal was during the Democratic and Republican primaries of 2008.
I am getting the feeling that the stars are aligning, in some weird and potentially violent way, which is actually less like the movement of stars than the overlapping and grinding of colliding tectonic plates.
As the editor of a community newspaper, it warms the cockles of my heart to see that more and more people are putting pen to paper and contributing impassioned and insightful letters to the editor.
Changing the name to of the old Bellevue Community College to Bellevue College required only a minor edit. Yet the change embodies a major and potentially transformational expansion of its service to the community: our baccalaureate program in a vital health care field.
I never thought it was right when newspapers wrote about themselves to make up the news.
It always seemed too self-referential; like the newspapers were deciding that their own internal machinations were important enough for anyone, apart from journalists, to care about.
There’s no doubt about it — media is changing drastically before our eyes.
