Detroit shows the way
I hope members of Congress and the White House read the papers and take note of Detroit.That city has its own D.I.Y. Dept., not run by the city. The lessons are the government cannot solve all your problems, as many in the government espouse.
Teacher contract details needed
While it is nice that contract agreements have been reached so early between the Bellevue School District and its teachers, I will withhold judgement or applause until I can actually read the contract and review provisions of the agreement myself.
Guns not the answer
I have no problem with gun lovers who are quick to pull a trigger killing each other, but I draw the line when people who are unarmed end up being killed by people carrying guns.
Promote goods, not property
Bellevue's mayor recently returned from an economic forum in China. In the story, Mei Young was quoted as saying "with Chinese nationals sometimes paying as much as $9 million to 12 million and competing for properties." This increase in real estate prices may be all well and good for a handful of property owners. For the rest of our citizens, it has only created a mini bubble in the housing market.
House transportation budget a disaster
The latest democratic budget proposal for transportation is a disaster. It actually steals money from badly needed road maintenance. It will cripple our transit systems that we so desperately need. It dumps enormous sums into three new road mega-projects.
Letter to the City Council
Resident asks tough questions of the City Council regarding light rail cost savings efforts.
Medina doesn't discriminate
Since my family moved to Medina in 1976 many members of racial minorities have chosen to make Medina their home. These bright people had the choice of many nice communities and would not have chosen to come to a place of racial prejudice.
Medina citizens need to voice their opinions Monday night
Medina recently lost a major racial discrimination lawsuit filed by former Police Chief Jeff Chen. Now the city must decide whether to appeal or not. An appeal would be the wrong thing to do and a waste of taxpayer money.
A budget for us all
At Puget Sound Bank, we work every day with our local small and medium size businesses who have been realigning their budgets and priorities as a result of the recession. Therefore, it is nice to see our state Senate produce a budget that honors the spirit of our Washington small businesses, and keeps the promise made in 2010 that those higher B & O taxes on small businesses would, in fact, be temporary.
Times change, problems don't
Another example of "what goes around comes around" is evident in the latest ad campaign for Overlake Hospital Medical Center, saying "we think getting to a top cardiac center shouldn't invocationlve 3 freeways and a toll bridge."
Letter about voting way off base
Denny Andrew’s March 22 letter accusing the Obama administration of “promulgating” voting by illegal aliens simply cannot be allowed to pass without comment. Mr. Andrews asks us to remember our own Washington 2004 gubernatorial election as an example of this supposed fraud.
