Unlike news reporter, cartoonists should not be called upon to justify or explain source of information.
I could not disagree more strongly with Tom Sulewski’s assertion that a Yes vote for Proposition 1 “would undercut momentum that exists in Olympia for a statewide transportation package.”
Newport Way was a quiet country road before development of the area turned it into a major arterial. The segment recently annexed to Bellevue (from the Somerset entrance to 150th Avenue Southeast) has not been upgraded and is a hazard to pedestrians.
I was rather disappointed with the most recent political cartoon disparaging the Affordable Care Act. In the cartoon, statistics were given with no reference to the source of these numbers.
Your opinion page cartoon in the March 21 edition was yet another tired reiteration of the old Tea Party mantra: why pay for services that don’t directly benefit me? The answer is so obvious it’s almost laughable.
If the Bellevue City Council considers a 59 percent approval of I-502 by Washington voters in 2012 to be “a lack of public input” then all I can say is “It’s a Good Day for the Gangs in Bellevue.”
The proposed plan to increase the minimum wage in the United States to $9 an hour by 2015 and $10.10 an hour by 2016 would have more benefits for the country than detriments.
March 31 is just around the corner and Planned Parenthood staff and volunteers are working double time to ensure our patients and the communities we serve have information about new, more affordable health insurance plans available to them thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
There needs to be a control on political campaign contributions. Individuals need to be limited on how much, if any, that they should be allowed to spend on their own campaigns.
The Feb. 28 article by Brandon Macz describes another new development destined to “enhance” downtown Bellevue’s tasteless, unwelcoming, bland style. Yet more stores and apartments designed in the same nondescript, functional, soul-less architecture that is proliferating in the area.
One can debate the morality of the death penalty or whether it acts as a deterrent to heinous crimes. However, there is nothing “moral” about our state’s legal system preventing prosecutors from seeking the death penalty because of additional costs.
Obama and those lamenting the current “income inequality” need to recognize the major contributor to the current status is the fact the “rich” have benefited from the gains in the stock market over the last five years. No one seems to have cried when the rich lost the most during the market fall off that preceded this rise. I also suspect any future losses will not accrue much sympathy.
Are evaluations ever going to be done in a timely manner so that inmates will not have to wait days and months? This is a serious problem in the court system. It has been more than three weeks and my son is still waiting in jail for his evaluation.
For the next 18 years, approximately 8,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day. By 2030, one in five Washingtonians will be considered elderly – and many will need long-term care.
So is this how Gov. Jay Inslee “energizes” his base – by suspending the death penalty? Inslee “walked through the steps of an execution.” So what? And he met with the people on death row. Again, so what?
It was a great Seahawks celebration parade on Feb. 5 to honor a winning football team, coaches and management. So why did the politicians have to ride in the parade, waving to everyone, as if they were being honored for the Super Bowl win?
The response to the CBO report that 2.5 million people will choose to work fewer hours to qualify for health care subsidies exemplifies the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals welcome the opportunity for people to work less and no longer feel “locked” into their current job because it provides “insurance.”
Put Russell Wilson’s $500,000 salary on every seat on Every professional football stadium and you might visualize the enormity of just the last $1.1 trillion federal spending bill. And that is for only through September.
Here is another way one might look at the wages for the poor, which I believe are the largest group of workers.
Bellevue’s children need to be able to successfully compete at home (and abroad) in the future global economy, and quality schools are their ticket to success.