Entertaining the family can be expensive, especially close to the holidays and in the midst of an economic downtown.
Jewelry bandit caught: Police arrested a woman outside a store in the 2200 block of 148th Avenue Northeast after she put some jewelry in her purse and left the store without paying.
The Redmond Police Department’s Auto Theft Tactical Analysis Center of King County (ATTACK) was named a finalist for the Webber Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement.
To develop the 2009-10 budget, the City of Redmond used a different approach than in past years, known as Budgeting by Priorities (BP).
As a result, we have reported the budget figures in the context of the priorities defined by the community earlier in the year.
After six weeks of intensive deliberation, the Metropolitan King County Council yesterday closed an unprecedented $93 million shortfall with unanimous adoption of a 2009 King County Budget that successfully protects the public’s highest priorities of public safety, health and quality of life.
“Budget cuts devastating to Eastside nonprofits,” the headline from Nov. 19 Redmond Reporter is our call to action.
On the fourth Thursday of every November, Americans pig out to the fullest extent while ignoring the sins of the past.
Here’s a headline for you: “A NEW STUDY HAS COME OUT!” Now that you’ve been thoroughly startled, let me give you the stunning details.
Jessica Dendy, of Hollywood Lights, was one of several workers wrapping holiday lights around the limbs of trees near the Redmond Senior Center last week.
REPORTER STAFF
It will cost about at least $4.5 billion to build a new 520 bridge complete with an interchange for the Montlake/University of Washington area, state officials said Thursday. However, the total could rise another $500 million to $2 billion if other options are picked.
The RigaTones, from left, Lenny Luzzi and Tom Falcone serenade diners during the annual Thanksgiving lunch at the Redmond Senior Center. More than 100 people showed up to the event.
CITY BUDGET
Survey for responsible government?
According to a recent letter in the Redmond Reporter, the city of Redmond plans to spend $250,000 of other people’s, that is, taxpayers’, money for a survey on responsible government.
If the city’s politicians, some of whom have been in office since the beginning of time, do not know what responsible government is, and if they do not have the ability to communicate that to the permanent bureaucracy, they should, perhaps, try another line of work.
It’s not as if I need to find reasons to continue indulging in arguably my favorite pastime – surfing the Internet.
Just a few weeks after she won re-election, Gov. Chris Gregoire now faces a $5 billion state budget shortfall.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and even though we all do a great job of gobbling up our holiday meals, we often find ourselves with a refrigerator full of leftover food.
Redmond-based Denali Advanced Integration and HP presented $3,000 to the Todd Stabelfeldt Foundation at the Nov. 15 University of Washington-UCLA football game at Husky Stadium.
This year, the RedmondLights Winter Festival will be held on Sunday, Dec. 7 at various locations around the city.
No excuse for driving: Police arrested a man in the 9500 block of Avondale Road for driving with a suspended license, driving under the influence and failing to use an ignition interlock device after he was pulled over for a traffic violation.
JOHN CARLSON
Column full of ‘partisan hackery’
John Carlson’s praise for Dino Rossi’s losing campaign and criticism of Darcy Burner and Christine Gregoire in “The Impact of 2008 Elections,” in the Nov. 15 Redmond Reporter isn’t insightful commentary, it’s partisan hackery.
Chris Gregoire was re-elected governor Nov. 4, but from the way she’s talking, you’d think her opponent, Dino Rossi, won the election.