The city and local groups have worked hard to replace a 70-year-old dam that is killing salmon, but final say is now with federal agency
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 Day of the Three Thunderstorms may sound like the title of an ancient fable, or a mystical tale of mother earth and winds and messages sent down from above.
A pile of freshly cooked pancakes is always going to draw a crowd.
And that’s what the members of the Issaquah Valley Seniors Center found out on Saturday when they held their annual fundraising pancake breakfast.
At the age of 36, Mark Mullet has already been through the kind of career realization that typically comes only later in life.
Traveling the world at the very pinnacle of the financial services industry, as a top executive of Bank of America and a foreign exchange trader with Swiss banks in New York and London, for Mullet the fiscal rewards were handsome.
All cat-eyes were on Issaquah last weekend, as the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) came to town.
My first look at the functioning of the American political machine up close and personal was during the Democratic and Republican primaries of 2008.
In 2009, graduating high school students are exploring ways in which they can involve their personal passions into a financially viable career, and increasingly turning their back on more traditional business degrees.
Families giving less away as economy puts the squeeze on charitable giving
As the population of Washington continues to grow by more than half a million people each decade, city planners are constantly looking at new and more effective ways to reduce the negative impact of urban sprawl on the state’s environmentally significant areas.
An Issaquah doctor believes that the effects of cuts to the state’s Basic Health Care Plan will spread throughout the health care industry, and could harm the ability of hospitals to efficiently treat emergency room patients.
The City of Issaquah is concentrating on reducing how much it spends on supplies, equipment, staff, and all items and programs it considers non-essential as a way to balance their budget in this time of falling revenues.
It was in 2003 that the stewards of Sammamish’s parks and recreation facilities first began to ponder how best to maintain the valued asset of Pine Lake Park.
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.
It is a realization that often comes to people only late in their adult lives – that a more just functioning of society depends on a charity of body, resources and spirit.
An hour from Bellevue to Seattle — I-90 lane closures will change the way we move
As state governments all over the country search for ways to cut millions from their budgets, no stone is being left unturned.
Today’s teenagers emerge from high school into a tertiary education and employment market more competitive than ever before.
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.
A spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed that the company currently has no plans to begin construction of a campus on the Issaquah Highlands.
