Sunday morning in Beaver Lake Park, a gentle rain falling, silence, the smell of rain and earth. What a great place, a rare oasis in what is becoming an ever more developed, concrete, digital, scheduled, inorganic environment.
The only way we can save vital services like the Basic Health Plan from destruction is to raise revenue.
It’s quite a different story this time around. In the past I have told you how community college job-skills training programs have helped people build entirely new careers after a layoff.
According to Business week, Americans look at safety, affordability, and most of all – high quality schools. Families with children will pay a premium to live in an area with an excellent, award-winning school system like Lake Washington School District.
Yes, we all realize the importance of education for our children, our community, our businesses and our society.
I think homelessness is an issue that overwhelms some people, that it freezes them.
In this season of caring and hope, I would like to share the moving story of two young men whose futures, far more than most of ours, depends on inner strength and a positive outlook.
Proving that last summer’s opening of Central Link was merely the beginning of a new era, Sound Transit extended light rail into SeaTac just in time for the holidays.
Proving that last summer’s opening of Central Link was merely the beginning of a new era, Sound Transit has extended light rail into SeaTac just in time for the holidays.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the military helped raise one of her biggest children.
This week negotiators from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to hammer out an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
There may be some sanity in politics after all. A provision by Sen. Patty Murray may let UW, Mariners and…
As the debate in the United States Congress continues over needed health care reform, much of the conversation turns on aspects legislators oppose, rather than proposals for the innovative ideas and creative solutions that will carry us down the path to meaningful, effective reform.
In many ways the groundbreaking marked an ending, the culmination of many years of wrangling and negotiating between the City of Issaquah, Highlands developer Port Blakely, and a number of non-profit groups in the state.
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving break. My wife and I spent the holiday in Georgia, visiting her brother, his wife and their school-aged daughter. It was super chilled – plenty of eating, snoozing, fishing and shooting the breeze.
For tech-savvy residents in Issaquah and Sammamish, Internet communication technologies like texting, video conferencing and camera phones are tools used in everyday life.
With the council elections behind us it is a good time for all the citizens to review the pressing issues Sammamish faces today, especially in light of reduced resources and services.
For someone whose estimations of the future of humankind fluctuate wildly from forlorn and despairing to proud and hopeful, there is a lot that I like about the direction the science and business of development is taking.
On Wednesday we gathered to celebrate and honor the great courage and sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. It is because of their sacrifice that we can safely enjoy the freedoms our great country offers. It is because of their unmatched commitment that America can remain a beacon for democracy and freedom throughout the world.