Jack Fagan, Mike Fagan, and I co-sponsored Initiative 1033 and worked hard for the past year advocating for it because we firmly believe in its policies and thought a lot of citizens supported it too.
That was proven true: More than 315,000 citizens signed petitions and, at last count, 673,000 voted for it. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough.
Last year at this time I was in Philadelphia celebrating a World Series championship with 2 million of my closest friends.
I had high hopes (high, apple pie-in-the-sky hopes) of doing it again this year, but, unfortunately, the New York Yankees were working from a different script.
Now that the 2009 election postmortems have been completed, the People In Charge are already looking ahead to February’s election, which promises to be full of bonds and levies designed to relieve you of your excess cash.
Within days of last November’s election, stories throughout the media began comparing Barack Obama to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The FDR era transformed people’s relationship to the federal government by greatly expanding its role in their lives. Would President Obama, his party armed with big majorities in both houses of Congress, do the same?
The last votes are still being counted. However, the real voting hasn’t even started yet in Maple Valley.
Before we address the question of “Who lost Boeing?” (the governor’s claim that “no one is to blame” is silly), let’s focus on a hint that went unheeded.
As I write this, I have 13 days until my due date, and right now editor Dennis Box is freaking out. Oh, and he’s not hiding it well.
“I keep telling people it’s not her they need to be worried about,” Dennis tells people when they ask me how I’m doing, “it’s ME! They need to worry about me!”
In the spirit of Halloween I have come up with a solution to the No. 1 problem in the world, how to find a girlfriend.
Every pathetic male on earth has faced this riddle, and a good answer has never been discovered.
When Jennifer Dunn first ran for public office, many people scoffed. Yes she was attractive, even a bit glamorous. Yes she was articulate. But her previous job was running a political party, which made her too partisan to effectively work together and govern. Oh, and she was also too conservative.
This past week I had the pleasure of taking my dad on a four day archery elk hunting trip at a private ranch in Idaho along the Idaho-Wyoming boarder. The trip was both exciting, challenging, successful and exhausting. But most of all it was a once in a life time trip with my dad.
You need to make a decision soon about how to vote on Initiative 1033. The absolutely clear answer is to vote NO! In voting no, you will be joined by those who took the time to read the details of this latest attack by Tim Eyman on vital services to our community.
Strange, how recent history sometimes repeats itself.
In 1992, Democrats swept to power in both Olympia and Washington D.C.
A popular young liberal president with commanding majorities in both houses of Congress set out to reform health care. And closer to home the Democratic governor enjoyed expanded majorities in the Legislature. Republicans were divided, out of touch and facing longtime decline.
Cash-for-clunkers was extremely successful by any measure. Even those who can’t fathom government doing anything right were soon silenced by…
I’m not a sports columnist, but everyone seems to have an opinion about whether Seattle Mariners’ legend Ken Griffey Jr. should hang it up or hang on for one final season.
If all goes as planned, Vancouver teacher-astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger will be on board Space Shuttle Discovery when it lifts off next March 10. It may be the last time she flies in space because the current shuttle flights end in 2010. The replacement orbiter, the Constellation, may not fly until 2014 at the earliest.
As kids across King County head back to school, parents, teachers and law enforcement are all thinking about ways to keep them safe at school. For years, we’ve emphasized the risks of narcotics and we’ve made great headway against methamphetamine. With those successes, however, some students are turning to the medicine cabinet.
Last weekend my wife and I saw Crosby, Stills, and Nash at the Puyallup fair, a fun memory. As a former police detective and commander of a homicide task force, I’ve seen things I’d like to forget. As a lawmaker, and chair of the House committee that deals with crime and public safety, I can’t imagine why it’d make sense for mental hospitals to take a criminally insane murderer on a field trip to the fair.
Every year for the past half decade or so, a holiday controversy has turned the Puget Sound area into a national laughingstock.
In 2005, the giving tree at Medina elementary school was taken down because some people speculated that other people might be offended by a Christmas tree in a public school.
After walking out of your doctor’s office with a prescription many believe it is the end of the process to determine the treatment a patient receives. These days, unfortunately, the doctor’s decision is only the beginning of that process.
Sometimes you can step into controversy while trying to avoid it. This happened a couple weeks ago when the Bellevue School District opted not to carry President Obama’s speech to school kids, and instead made a video available to teachers on request. Rather than irritate the few, the district angered the many.
