Washington needs a transportation funding package in 2013. Without major investment in transportation infrastructure in Washington, the people of this state risk losing a lot.
Some time back, my wife gave me a coffee mug that said “Bark Less, Wag More.” The meaning? Stop being such a grouch. Good advice for someone writing editorials.
Starbucks has come up with a good idea to rev-up interest in the looming “fiscal cliff.” It wants its employees at Washington, D.C., cafes to write the words “Come Together” on cups for drink orders to push lawmakers to find a solution.
Mere days after Adam Lanza gunned down 20 little kids and six adults in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association stepped before the public – and managed to make things worse.
Between 2006-2008, drowsy drivers contributed to 77 (4.5 percent) of fatal crashes in Washington state, according to the state Department of Transportation. And nationally, drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 crashes a year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association.
It’s been a week now since the senseless tragedy in Newtown, Conn., where 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot and killed those students and six adults. Earlier he had killed his mother. Why? We’ll probably never know. But, how do we stop it?
Kudos to Eastside Sen. Rodney Tom (D-Medina)for joining with fellow Democrat Tim Sheldon of Potlach to give Republicans control of the state Senate. The move is the best way to insure there will be a balance of power in Olympia when the Legislature convenes on Jan. 14.
There is something special about Chanukah: the core dynamics of this holiday have been repeated time and time again throughout Jewish history.
The U.S. is poised to fall off a “fiscal cliff” on Jan. 1 unless Democrats and Republicans find a way to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases. Yawn.
It’s been just weeks since the 2012 elections, and I imagine many of you welcome the reprieve from campaign advertising. You may have been disappointed regarding the ballot box results. However, I encourage you accept the voice of the people and to become more engaged in the process.
The issue in Congress over how to balance the budget – higher taxes, cuts in spending – needs advocates from both sides to find some answer in the middle. Either option alone won’t work.
A recent report by KOMO-TV Problem Solvers paints a disturbing picture of work on the new 520 bridge. The station cited a former inspector as saying the new 520 Bridge is “a disaster waiting to happen.” Why do we suddenly have a sinking feeling?
A story in today’s Reporter tells of Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaiming this week as Drowsy Driving Prevention Week and the efforts of an Issaquah couple – William Shaw and Mary Beth Haggerty-Shaw – to help bring that about. The Shaws know the consequences of drowsy driving all to well – their daughter, Mora, was nearly killed and still suffers injuries from when she was a passenger in a car that went off the road because of a drowsy driving event. William Shaw is the publisher of the Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter, but that’s not why I’m writing this. I came frighteningly close to being a similar victim years ago when I was in college.
The end of Hostess Brands Inc. is a lesson for us all. Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, was trying to emerge from its second bankruptcy in three years, when a bakery workers’ strike effectively signed the company’s death warrant. When the strikers refused to return to work, the company shut its doors, putting 18,500 people out of work.
It’s Black Friday today, the day shoppers help put merchants in the financial “black” for the year. But there’s another day that’s even more important: Small Business Saturday. It happens tomorrow, Nov. 24, across the nation.
I typically lean left when it comes to politics (right-wing conspiracy theorists feel free to gasp now at the idea of the liberal media). But there was one issue on the Washington ballot this year I sided with many of my conservative friends. The passing of I-502, the bill making it legal for adults over 21 to possess an ounce of marijuana, is just asking for trouble — in particular on the road.
Post elections, I ask all of you to stay involved. Stay informed. Stay tuned to the discussions that will affect the future of you and your children.
Humorist Will Rogers once noted that “politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” If he could only see it now.
The Redmond software giant might not be sleeping any more.
Over the past week or so Microsoft has released a number of hardware and software innovations that have received – on average – favorable reviews in the technical and popular press.
As the eastern seaboard recovers from its battering by Hurricane Sandy, which combined with a winter storm from the west to be dubbed “Frankenstorm,” we in the Puget Sound area should remember that we are not immune to natural disasters.