Here’s a question we have never heard from a constituent: “Why can’t you be more partisan and divisive and forget about getting things done?”
It turns out resilience is an important mental health characteristic that helps adolescents and adults cope in the face of adversity or stress. In essence, resilience means being able to bounce back from difficult times and cope well with challenges.
As if there weren’t enough intense, mind-boggling performances already.
As the pace of our lives moves faster and faster and the demands on our time increase, the ties to our community become even more important. A strong community provides us with a stable base that helps us deal with the pressures of daily life.
Some in our state are having an OMG moment because Sens. Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon — both DEMOCRATS — have sided with Republicans to take control of the state Senate.
After a decade of work, King County and our regional partners have an unprecedented opportunity to provide transportation and recreational connections to our east and south King County communities. Stretching from Renton to Woodinville, in an area already confined geographically between water and mountains, the 42-mile Eastside Rail Corridor (ERC) is a priceless public passageway. Now that its final acquisition has been completed, we must ensure that the region succeeds in maximizing its value and usage for the benefit of all King County residents.
Rosa Parks Elementary School up on Redmond Ridge is usually in the news about being overcrowded with students.
The 2013 legislative bell will ring on Monday as local legislators take the ring in Olympia to tackle a tough $900 million budget shortfall.
I know this has been said before, but it’s worth repeating. Again and again.
Stay alert out there on the road, whether you’re walking, biking or driving.
While an editorial is suppose to take a pointed view – it is, after all, an opinion – too often the space we use isn’t enough to give a topic justice.
So, as 2012 nears its end, I — like everyone else, I assume — find myself evaluating my productivity over the last 12 months.
I’ve put another year under my belt in my two decades-plus journalism career and feel it’s been a good one.
If there’s any one thing that has stuck with me through my years of playing chess, it is that you fight hard until the very end.
On Dec. 4, the Redmond City Council adopted the Fiscal Year 2013-14 biennial budget.
Working with Mayor John Marchione, we delivered a budget that responds to citizen priorities and complies with the long-term fiscal policies the City Council put in place to ensure a sound financial future for our community.
On Tuesday, Dec. 4, the Redmond City Council passed a budget for 2013 through 2014. The administration says the budget “is reduced to take into account the continued lack of service demand in development review (and other items)” and is a 4 percent increase over the current budget. The budget includes a 1 percent property tax increase even though we will have a $10 million surplus at the end of 2012 (the 1 percent increase is worth about $450,000 over the next two years).
The U.S. is poised to fall off a “fiscal cliff” on Jan. 1 unless Democrats and Republicans find a way to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases.
Yawn.
It’s not that we don’t believe — sort of — the doomsayers who tout what a catastrophe this would be to the nation’s economy. It’s just that we don’t think rational people — yes, that means politicians – are so stupid as to let that happen.
As the holiday season approaches, it only further reflects the ideals that our society has brought upon us this festive time of the year.
Take a stroll around the mall and you will see shop windows adorned with colorful garlands and bells, but incomplete without the advertisement of “mind-blowing” sales and “the perfect gifts for your loved ones.” Although admittedly, there would be a significant amount of tradition lost with the removal of this materialism, as an adolescent, sometimes I find myself questioning the need behind this commercialism.
Normally, I’m a pretty quiet guy when it comes to discussing my job outside of the work place.
I’ve been in the journalism business for 20-plus years, and while there’s always something interesting happening at the paper, my usual outlook is to get the job done and move on to the many other aspects of my life. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate each day on the job to the fullest, and I always have ever since that first day at the Los Altos Town Crier as an entertainment section editor.
The 2012 general election was a lot of things. It was an exercise in democracy, a peaceful transition of power and as annoying as ever. The cliches alone are enough to make you want to throw something at the TV.
Humorist Will Rogers once noted that “politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” If he could only see it now.
Estimates put the cost of the recent presidential race at $2.6 billion. That means one side spent more than $1 billion only to lose. We’d hope there was a lesson there — but we doubt it.
I was president once.
Yes, that’s true, and during my one-year tenure in eighth grade, I did an OK job.
Nothing to write home about, mind you, but I ran our student council at Our Lady of Guadalupe school in Hermosa Beach, Calif., the best I could when I wasn’t thinking about playing soccer and baseball and worrying that my record collection wasn’t big enough.