Last month we learned that King County Councilmembers Reagan Dunn and Kathy Lambert proposed a funding plan to save criminal justice funding from the budget axe. (Redmond Reporter, June 17, 2010). Part of the plan involved a trade-off between collecting less property taxes (a small reduction) and raising sales tax revenues (a sizable increase).
The 70th Annual Redmond Derby Days parade was longer, had more entrants, and had a crowd along the streets present for viewing.
However, I was amazed by the number of people I ran into after Derby Days that said “Really, this was Derby Days weekend? I had no idea!”
For weeks prior to the Ananda Mela Festival in later June there were signs everywhere. Sandwich boards on streets, signs on cars, flyers in windows.
I read the column, “Federal health care law will cause costs to soar,” in the July 16 Redmond Reporter and I thought that I was reading an article from the Republican party.
King County Animal Regional Services plans to reduce the license fee for unaltered animals from $90 to $60 (Redmond Reporter, July 9, 2010).
I was driving by a Kirkland Safeway recently and noticed a huge yellow banner announcing a “Farmer’s Market – This Saturday and Sunday.”
As the manager of the Redmond Saturday Market (the oldest Eastside farmer’s market), I stopped in to talk to the manager of that store. Naturally, since I know many of the farmers, I wanted to know what farms would be represented.
In September 2009, in order to reduce the number of fraudulent prescriptions, the state mandated that all prescription pads be printed on Washington State Board of Pharmacy approved paper by July 2010. These new pads must have at least three levels of security on them.
Yes, Washington does need an income tax, and the advocacy for such a tax is not class warfare.
The reason is the increasing trend of executives to shift organizational costs to the government while increasing their personal salaries for entitled lifestyles.
I writing in reference to Andrew Villeneuve’s June 4 column, “Time for real tax reform: Vote yes on Initiative 1098.” Our government is a representative democracy for one important reason: we don’t want the majority to set rules on a minority of citizens.
I am writing in response to the recent editorial written by Lance Hood in the May 28 edition of the Redmond Reporter.
While Mr. Hood may be a fine technology marketer, an economic analyst and historian he is not.
Tribute to Veterans Let flags wave in every breeze of thought. Some gave all that was expected of them. Many…
The Veterans Employment Bill sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray (My Turn, May 14 edition of the Redmond Reporter) is an essential piece of legislation to set in motion programs which will only become more critical as veterans return from Southwest Asia and seek civilian employment.
In high school I was always exhausted. I had trouble staying awake during class and as soon as Redmond High got out at 2:01 p.m., I rushed home and passed out, not waking up until dinner.
As a walker who uses the Redmond Ridge paved walking trails on a daily basis, I have a question. Why…
In a letter to the editor by Michael Barr of Sammamish in the April 16 edition of the Redmond Reporter, he stated that challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare was a bunch of baloney.
The truth of the situation is, determining the constitutionality of Obamacare does matter because the Constitution matters.
Letter writer Michael Barr (April 16 edition) dismisses Attorney General Rob McKenna’s challenge of a specific provision of the health care reform bill as just a political ploy by Republicans to “thwart the will of the people.”
Will of the people? When poll after poll shows opposition to this bill consistently near 60 percent nationally and well over 50 percent in Washington state? Mr. Barr is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own set of facts.
On April 28, we look forward to welcoming 500 community leaders of Redmond, Kirkland and Sammamish to celebrate the 5th…
Concerning last week’s letter (Bob Olson in the April 9 issue) that health care reform should be put on hiatus and a new bill developed based on compromise.
This bill is full of compromises, all made on the Democratic side. And it was passed in accordance with the Constitution which the Right holds in such esteem. Democrats compromised on offering a single payer program, on the public option, on clarifying that federal funds would not be used for abortion, among others. Republicans had 10 years to put forth their own reforms. When President Obama proposed a summit to work out a compromise, Republicans stated that it was a “set up.”
So health care insurance reform being challenged is all about the Constitutionality of it?
That is a bunch of baloney.
This is nothing more than a political ploy by the Republicans to again thwart the will of the people to get meaningful reform of a failed for profit system.
Several times now I have been confronted by Lyndon LaRouche supporters with petitions and holding posters of President Obama, wearing…
The cartoon on the editorial page in the April 2 edition, showing an angry mob of elephants and a donkey…