Bookstores have all but been decimated by the digital book revolution, but our public libraries have survived. And how! Any book lover of a “real” book or an ebook should visit their favorite library’s collection and see how well it compares with any other book source. Yes, we’re looking at you, Amazon!
Puget Sound Energy needs to get back to managing public electricity without speculative design. Playing entrepreneur for foreign investors, multinationals and profit motives is violence to our fragile Eastside mentality and our development.
We are writing this letter to express our discontent with how the entire Eastside will be ripped off by the current Sound Transit 3 proposal. The Eastside has a population nearly equal to that of Seattle at 630,000, and Interstate 405 — the highway running through this area — is the most congested freeway in the state of Washington, more congested, may I remind you, than I-5 running through Seattle.
Kemper Freeman owns this town. Why is that OK?
In the last two weeks, I have counted the loss of over 25 magnificent 150- to 250-year-old evergreen trees in just my immediate neighborhood in south Bellevue. The resulting raw, unshaded, public vistas (into garages, front windows and toolsheds mostly) are charmless and disgusting.
The article in the May 20 edition titled “Homeowners left high and dry” reveals one of the many perils of homeownership — sewer backup. Many of the more common emergencies are discussed enough but homes that suffer sewer backup, especially in Lake Hills where there are a lot of hills, leave homeowners defenseless. People just don’t know what to do to limit damage and contamination.
I want to thank the anti-Black Lives Matter suspect who threw the sign at protesters and possibly slashed the sign to make their opinion known. Thank you, dear individual, for bringing home a lesson that I think we all ought to keep in mind as we do our daily routines, and live in our comfortable, personal worlds.
Nothing is more unbecoming than a bunch of liberal do-gooders fretting over something they can’t control: what others think and believe. Sure, racism is ugly and stupid. So is homophobia. But, unless we repeal the First Amendment, having ugly opinions ain’t illegal.
I am a Muslim female student at Bellevue College who wears a headscarf. Last week’s front page story, “Hate speech spurs Bellevue College students to question safety,” made me incredibly embarrassed. First things first. I apologize for the paranoia and undeserved bashing of Bellevue College staff exhibited by various students.
As the phases of the Energize Eastside project progress, the matter of whether Puget Sound Energy has done all that it can to conserve and generate energy locally keeps coming to mind.
Your front page story of Deirdre Keys ( Bellevue Reporter, May 13) is inspiring and soul-stirring. She was once a victim of domestic violence herself and is now doing her best to rescue and help such victims through Livewire so as to enable them to lead a meaningful social life.
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With the recent opening of a light rail segment in Bellevue, “What were they thinking?” comes to mind first, while Danny DeVito’s hilarious lecture in “Other People’s Money” sadly follows. Here, we see municipal leaders and transit planners squandering almost a million bucks to pat themselves on the back, enhance personal publicity and “announce” the opening of a light rail segment that’s been eagerly awaited for a decade.
Joan Wallace couldn’t sleep.
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A farmers market is a wonderful thing and I am glad we have one in Bellevue. I am glad also that a new generation is joining in to take over management.
Our school district is looking at changing the school boundaries and sending the kids from the previous Bellevue High School attendance area to another school, Sammamish High School.
The April 29 Bellevue Reporter article says from I-90, East Link will “turn north in Bellevue near Mercer Slough.” A more apt description is it will turn north into Mercer Slough Nature Park, entering a two-and-a-half story train station the length of a football field, including a five-story parking garage.