The former Renton District Court judge hired to bring some civility to the meetings of the Public Hospital District No. 1 Commission has resigned as commission parliamentarian.
An earthquake isn’t an equal-opportunity shaker.
So to determine how a quake’s power differs across the Puget Sound region, scientists are setting up sensitive monitoring equipment in someplace solid, such as a house basement, to track that power as part of the NetQuakes project.
The Valley Medical Center has some serious business to consider – whether to form a strategic alliance with UW Medicine.
But commissioner Anthony Hemstad is hampering that business by continuously bringing up or promoting side issues that simply have nothing to do with an alliance. It’s what’s known as a red herring, or something that diverts attention away from what’s really important.
You’re more likely to get killed in a traffic accident involving speed in King County than anywhere else in the state.
That’s probably not surprising, given the county’s population and traffic load. Counting 2004 through 2008, speed killed 246 people in King County, or 21 percent of the state’s total.
A fire started by a roofer’s torch that was thought out caused a four-alarm blaze Tuesday night that gutted one of two buildings of the Harrington Square Apartments, according to Bill Flora, Renton’s deputy fire chief.
